Tobacco companies offer new tactics, same risks: health advocates
The tobacco industry is employing new ways to attract a new breed of smokers but its products are still harmful to health, say advocates.
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By law, sin tax hike should also help tobacco farmers
The other beneficiary – tobacco farmers – is seldom mentioned.
Ten years since smoking regulation law, farmers still stuck with tobacco
CABUGAO, Ilocos Sur — Shirley Pichay, 38, is a wife and mother of two. But around here, she is known as a “cowboy."
Policy against tobacco industry needs more push – health group
NGO HealthJustice Philippines says the government has yet to fully address tobacco industry interference.
Tobacco farmers yet to feel benefits of excise tax shares
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
Like Arroyo, Aquino gov’t releases billions to LGUs before elections
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
Stricter tobacco control needed in PH despite decline in use
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
‘Yosi’ by ‘tingi’: Lethal comes in little packages
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.”