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Subject: [JoeChemer-announce]Philippines Goes Smokefree
Philippines Enacts Smokefree Workplace Law
.i~~ns Norway, Ireland. and Australia: UK likely to be next
Parts excerpted from Mail & Guardian, 6/23/03
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Monday signed into law a tobacco regulatory act
that imposes an absolute smoking ban in public places and stops all tobacco advertisements by July
2008.
The Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003 also prohibits the sale of tobacco products "within 100 meters
from the perimeter of any education institution" and other areas frequented by the youth.
Under the law, tobacco advertisements will be phased out starting January 1 2007, and totally
outlawed effective July 1 2008.
Senator Juan Flavier, the main proponent of the law, said another key point of the act requires
companies to "print health warnings on the front panel of all packages of tobacco products" otherwise
the goods will be confiscated.
"We want the warning on the front panel so that people can immediately see it," he said. "Microscopic
warnings are no longer enough." Similarly, countries within the European Union recently added front
and back warnings taking up 40% of pack space.
Flavier, a former health secretary, said the absolute smoking ban will be imposed in all public places,
including bars and restaurants which have in the past only assigned a smoking area in their
establishments. "We are just being fooled by these partitions," he said.
He added smokers "can kill themselves" in the privacy of their homes, cars and offices.
Sale of tobacco products to minors was also prohibited by the law, which imposes imprisonment of
up to three years and fines of up to 400,000 pesos ($7,500 dollars) to violators.
The World Health Organization has warned that more and more youths were taking up smoking in
the Philippines. Its statistics show more than half of Filipino children aged 7 to 17 now smoke a
150% increase since 1987.
The Philippines joins Norway, Ireland, and Australia in enacting comprehensive Smokefree workplace
legislation.
Joseph W. Cherner, President
SmokeFree Educational Services, Inc.
<http~//www smokefree ora> Comm. No. • Z
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