Regional Updates

• Philippines: Baguio’s anti-smoking task force to help BPO workers quit vice

  17 July 2018: BAGUIO CITY — The City of Pines’ anti-smoking task force might come up with a program aimed at helping employees of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) companies in the [...]

• Philippines: Bishop calls court decision on smoking ban disgusting

  15 July 2018: BALANGA City, Bataan: Bishop Ruperto Santos of the Diocese of Balanga on Saturday described a court decision on this city’s No Smoking ordinance as “disappointing and disgusting.” “A [...]

• Philippines: Bataan city sued over antismoking laws

  13 July 2018: CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — The Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (Seatca) has assailed the Philippine Tobacco Institute (PTI) for suing the Balanga City government to stop [...]