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Tobacco farmers yet to feel benefits of excise tax shares

By VERA Files. Photos and video by DANIEL ABUNALES | May 08, 2016 11:45 AM

Second of two parts (See Part 1: Like Arroyo, Aquino gov’t releases billions to LGUs before elections) ALCALA, Pangasinan — At the end of the newly opened section of the Tarlac-Pangasinan La Union Expressway, the one that exits at Rosales town, is a huge monstrosity of a structure, appearing empty and abandoned. It is supposed […]

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Editor's Pick News PHL Vote 2016 Seeing through the Smoke

Like Arroyo, Aquino gov’t releases billions to LGUs before elections

By VERA Files | May 08, 2016 11:22 AM

First of two parts THE Aquino government has distributed some P10 billion pesos to select local government units mostly in Northern Luzon on the eve of the 2016 elections, repeating a practice employed by the Arroyo administration which President Aquino has repeatedly called a corrupt government. The funds represent the LGUs’ share from excise taxes […]

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Stricter tobacco control needed in PH despite decline in use

Apr 14, 2015 7:31 AM

By JAKE SORIANO DESPITE a drop in the number of smokers, the Philippines still needs to adopt “more drastic measures” to further reduce tobacco use, said an anti-smoking advocate and cancer survivor. Emer Rojas, who uses an electrolarynx and is described as a walking graphic health warning against smoking, said measures such as raising the […]

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‘Yosi’ by ‘tingi’: Lethal comes in little packages

May 31, 2012 3:37 PM

By JOSEPH HOLANDES UBALDE, InterAksyon.com
BUYING cigarettes per stick or “tingi” rather than by pack is preferred by many Filipinos. While smokers like to think that consuming cigarettes little by little means they are consuming less and are therefore not addicted, medical health experts caution “it is often a prelude to buying cigarettes in packs or consuming even more.”

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