Health bosses push for smoking law change Health leaders have called for new smoking laws to be passed before a general election is called
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Antonio Israel, one of the lead convenors of the online advocacy campaign EKIS sa Smuggling and president of the Nicotine Consumers Union of the Philippines (NCUP), warned that the billions of pesos generated from smuggling can be used to fund unimaginable crimes that threatens our national security. Israel said that based on reports disclosed during a recent anti-illicit trade conference, it is worrisome that armed groups in Mindanao continue to harm national interest by masterminding and perpetuating illicit trade of agriculture products and cigarettes. An international security expert revealed in a recent forum in Makati City that former members of various armed groups in Mindanao turned to smuggling operations to finance their criminal activities
c) sponsorship means any form of public or private contribution to any event, activity or individual with the aim or direct or indirect effect of promoting a tobacco product
Limitations In most countries, national level brand-specific price statistics were not available, thus the retail price data were collected from one supermarket/hypermarket or kiosk/newsagent/tobacconist/independent food store usually in the capital city of the country (where survey respondents were mostly located), therefore potentially not being nationally representative.