Claire Voloso

Mapeh 10

Smoking and Use of Dangerous

Drugs: A National Issue
Tobbaco Smoking and Use of Addictive Drugs - two important health
issues faced by the government include tobacco smoking and use of
addictive or illegal drugs.
Republic Act 9211 - also known as the Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003
Regulates the use, distribution and advertisement of tobacco and
products.
The act aims to do the following:
A. Promote a healthful environment
B. Inform the public of the health risks associated with cigarette
smoking and tobacco use
C. Regulate and subsequently ban all tobacco advertisements and
sponsorships
D. Regulate the labeling of tobacco products
E. Protect the youth from being initiated to cigarette smoking and
tobacco use by prohibiting the sale of tobacco product to minors
F. Assist and encourage Filipino tobacco farmers to cultivate
alternative agricultural crops to prevent economic dislocation
G. Create an Inter-Agency Committee on Tobacco (IAC-Tobacco) to
oversee the implementation of the provision of this act.
Republic Act 9165 - also known as the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs
Act of 2002 includes the protection of the entire country and its people
with regard to the harmful effects of using addictive drugs.
The act aims to do the following:
A. Importation of dangerous drugs and/or controlled precursors and
essential chemicals
B. Selling, trading, administrating, dispensing, delivering, distributing,
and transporting of dangerous drugs and/or controlled precursors
and essential chemicals
C. Maintenance of a drug den, dive or resort
D. Having employees and visitors of a drug den, dive or resort
E. Manufacture of dangerous drugs and/or controlled precursors and
essential chemicals
F. Illegal chemical diversion of controlled precursors and essential
chemicals
G. Manufacture or delivery of equipment, instrument, apparatus, and
other paraphernalia for dangerous drugs and/or controlled
precursors and essential chemicals
H. Possession of dangerous drugs
I. Possession of equipment, instrument, apparatus, and other
paraphernalia for dangerous drugs
J. Possession of dangerous drugs during parties, social gatherings, or
meetings
K. Use of dangerous drugs
L. Cultivation or culture of plants classified as dangerous drugs or are
sources thereof our government needs our full cooperation to
completely control the unfavorable effects of smoking, while still
considering the welfare of workers in the tobacco industry.