Regional Updates

• Philippines: Cigarette price at P20 per stick can stop youth from smoking

  12 December 2018 Ma. Teresa Montemayor Philippines News Agency MANILA — Studies show that smoking or tobacco use remains to be the biggest preventable cause of death, disabilities and diseases across [...]

• Philippines: Boxing icon Pacquiao is determined to push bill doubling tobacco tax rate

  11 December 2018 EDD K. USMAN Scitech and Digital APPARENTLY, Senate Bill 1599 is not moving as its author wants. But the author, world boxing icon and Sen. Manny “Pacman” [...]

• Philippines: Tobacco tax hike to help fund health care law: Sen. Ejercito

  29 November 2018 ABS-CNB MANILA — Higher excise taxes on tobacco products will help fund the Universal Health Care Law, a senator who sought to raise the levy said Thursday. [...]