Just hours after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced he would ban e-cigarette use,
police were ordered on Wednesday to begin arresting people caught vaping in public and to confiscate the devices.
The abrupt prohibition, revealed by Duterte late Tuesday, adds to a growing global backlash against a product once promoted as less harmful than smoking.
Duterte called the devices "toxic" and said vaping introduced "chemicals" into the user's body.