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DOH, DFA at loggerheads on tobacco issue in global health meet
As one of the 10 co-heads of the Philippine delegation in the ongoing virtual Conference of the Parties 9 (COP9) of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) in Geneva, Switzerland, Locsin described tobacco use as useful and beneficial because “taxes on a vice are called salutary.”
Philippine government promotes tobacco industry interests at global health forum; civil society outraged
Civil society groups consider the position taken by the Philippine delegation at the COP9 as a betrayal.
