Villamor, (2017) MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte,

who has overseen a deadly campaign to eradicate drug use in

the Philippines, has now ordered a strict public ban on
smoking and called on citizens to help the local
authorities apprehend smokers.
The executive order, signed this week and made public
on Thursday, forbids the use of tobacco, including
electronic cigarettes, in all public spaces, even
sidewalks. It also prohibits anyone under 18 from “using,
selling or buying cigarettes or tobacco products.”More than
a quarter of Filipinos smoke, according to a 2015 World
Health Organization report, including 11 percent of minors.

Felipe Villamor The new york times

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/world/asia/rodrigo-
duterte-smoking-ban-philippines.html

Last month, during the Kadayawan festival, an unnamed

local tourist literally got a taste of Davao City Mayor
Rodrigo Duterte’s iron hand when the former challenged the
anti-smoking ordinance. In a social media post by former
North Cotabato Governor Manny Piñol, he said: “one night,
during the week-long Kadayawan Festival held last month, a
restaurant owner alerted the police of a Filipino tourist
who insisted on smoking while drinking beer. Informed by
the restaurant owner that smoking inside public places is
prohibited in Davao City, the smoker defiantly asked: “On
whose orders? Bakit pera ba ni Duterte ang binibili ko ng
sigarilyo?” (“Why, am I using Duterte’s money in buying
cigarettes?”) The arrogant response irked the restaurant
owner who is a friend of the mayor. He immediately alerted
the police and asked them to inform Duterte of the defiant
smoker.
Minutes later, Mayor Duterte walked into the
restaurant. The arrogant smoker was ashen-faced and
immediately dropped his cigarette and stepped on it.
Witnesses said Duterte calmly sat beside the smoker, pulled
out a snub-nosed .38 revolver and poked it at the man’s
crotch. “Papiliin kita: barilin ko ang b…g mo, i-preso kita
o kainin mo ang upos ng sigarilyo mo,” Duterte reportedly
told the smoker. (I will give you three choices: I shoot
your b…ls, I send you to jail or you eat your cigarette
butt.) The smoker reportedly muttered “Sorry mayor,” picked
up his cigarette butt and swallowed it. Witnesses said that
before Duterte left, he told the smoker: “Never ever
challenge the law.”
THE MANILA TIMES ON SEPTEMBER 7, 2015.
https://www.manilatimes.net/smoking-in-davao-city-
dangerous-to-life-and-limb/217071/

Tubeza, (2011) Ten Filipinos die every hour from

illnesses caused by smoking while the country loses nearly
P500 billion annually from healthcare costs and
productivity losses, according to an anti-tobacco group.
HealthJustice Philippines disputed the claims of tobacco
companies that increasing taxes on tobacco would hurt
tobacco farmers and lead to the loss of livelihood.
“The most important issue is none other than health.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that
tobacco consumption kills 10 Filipinos every hour, due to
cancer, stroke, lung and heart diseases brought on by
cigarette smoking,” the group said in a statement. “Even if
a person does not smoke, the WHO warns that second-hand
smoke causes hundreds of thousands of deaths to non-smokers
due to the same smoking-related diseases,” it said.
Inquirer.net.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/61111/smoking-kills-10-
filipinos-every-hour#ixzz5PTg0wNuM

Hitchman, S. (2016) Based on the 8th National Nutrition

Survey conducted by the Food and Nutrition Research
Institute (FNRI), smoking prevalence in the Philippines has
gone down from 31% in 2008 to 25.4% in 2013; or
specifically, from 53.2% in 2008 to 44.7% in 2013 in males,
and from 12.9% to 7.8% in females.
Compared to global average, however, male smoking
incidence in the Philippines exceeded the global average of
36% with smoking prevalence of 44.7% in 2013. The same is
also depicted for female smoking incidence at a higher rate
of 7.8% against the global average of 7%. The smoking
incidence of the total population was 25.4%, which was
higher than the 21% worldwide average. Nonetheless, in
spite of these larger than normal figures, in the
Philippine declined in the five year period (p. 33).

NTRC tax research journal vol. xxviii.1 jan-feb. 2016

http://www.ntrc.gov.ph/images/journal/2016/j20160102b.
pdf

The Extent of Influence of Factors on Cigarette

Smoking Among Teenagers in Baguio City. Although there are
several studies conducted on teenage smoking, the causes to
become smokers in adolescence remain unclear. Several
factors were identified but the extent of its influence
still obscure. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to
investigate the significant difference in the extent of
influence of these identified factors when teens are group
according to gender and age group of 13 to 16 years old
versus 17-19 years of age.

2013 Joan cheruiyot, Marjorie Retuta, Geofrey Arasa,

Sabella J. Kiprono, Scholastica Korir, Simon Macharia
Kamau. Researchgate.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236990685_The_Exte
nt_of_Influence_of_Factors_on_Cigarette_Smoking_Among_Teena
gers_in_Baguio_City_A_Cross-Sectional_Study