After President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the ban on vaping in public places, the House of Representatives has started to tackle bills regulating electronic cigarettes and other similar devices in a joint meeting of the health and trade and industry commitees.
This photo illustration shows a customer smoking at a vape store in Manila on November 20, 2019. Just hours after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced he would ban e-cigarette use, police were ordered on November 20 to begin arresting people caught vaping in public and to confiscate the devices. / AFP / DANTE DIOSINA JR