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Calling the attention of our beloved President Benigno Aquino III to Stop Smoking and be a role model for everyone into a tobacco-free Philippines, said of the participants of the Tobacco Control Summit 2011 organized by the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Alliance Philippines (FCAP) and the Philippine College of Chest Physicians (PCCP).
According to FCAP board member Bobby del Rosario and Dr. Rlorante Trinidad, technical officer of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Tobacco-Free Initiative, although President Aquino may have difficulty in stopping from smoking, he should at least declare that smoking is bad for one's health and support anti-smoking policies.
Trinidad said, Tobacco kills 87,600 Filipinos per year, and 240 deaths are recorded every day.
Despite tobacco control efforts in the country, 17.3 million Filipinos now smoke, and almost 2/3 of the adults and children are exposed to second-hand tobacco smoke.
He added that the increasing number of smokers is a consistent trend in developing countries like the Philippines, whose anti-smoking laws are not as strict as those in developed countries.
Meanwhile, smoking ban violators at public places in Metro Manila will now receive a warning from Metro Manila Development Authority enforcers as a public smoking ban takes effect in Metro Manila yesterday, May 30, 2011.
Source: abs-cbnnews.com
According to FCAP board member Bobby del Rosario and Dr. Rlorante Trinidad, technical officer of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Tobacco-Free Initiative, although President Aquino may have difficulty in stopping from smoking, he should at least declare that smoking is bad for one's health and support anti-smoking policies.
Trinidad said, Tobacco kills 87,600 Filipinos per year, and 240 deaths are recorded every day.
Despite tobacco control efforts in the country, 17.3 million Filipinos now smoke, and almost 2/3 of the adults and children are exposed to second-hand tobacco smoke.
He added that the increasing number of smokers is a consistent trend in developing countries like the Philippines, whose anti-smoking laws are not as strict as those in developed countries.
Meanwhile, smoking ban violators at public places in Metro Manila will now receive a warning from Metro Manila Development Authority enforcers as a public smoking ban takes effect in Metro Manila yesterday, May 30, 2011.
Source: abs-cbnnews.com
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