Why can't we BAN Cigarettes?

[baurtwellXUV]

ika nga.... kanya-kanyang trip lang yan. :D



korek! ;)

korek na korek yan! too much of everything is really bad!!!

[kotiko]

The people who control the cig industry here are "big players"..

[mazdamazda]

udpate... 5 million per year are die worldwide due to smoking related diseases.

that's more than the number of people who die of war-related causes.

[BlueBimmer]

tax tax tax....

[uls]

Di lang naman money yan e

The illegal drug trade is also worth a lot of money but it is still illegal.

The reason why tobacco products arent banned is coz the negative effects on health take a long time to manifest... and some people never even get sick.

If tobacco products have more immediate effects like killing u after smoking a few sticks, any government would immediately ban it.

And since tobacco products are cheap, people dont really go around stealing and robbing other people just to buy cigarettes.

But people would steal and rob and kill to get money to buy cocaine or meth.

Illegal drugs destroy lives faster and more obviously than tobacco products.

[redorange]

A ban would be hard to enforce because even with shabu and marijuana the government has a hard time apprehending people who produce these drugs. Keep in mind that those drugs are illegal everywhere, except for marijuana in the Netherlands, now imagine banning something that is legal everywhere else in the world. How do you keep watch of the rampant smuggling that would happen with the vast coastline of the country? You would enrich the criminal organizations a hundred times over on the smuggling alone.

I don't know if people know or recall that from 1920-1933 the US had prohibition of alcohol, which made manufacture, sale, and transport of alcohol illegal. During that time the black market for alcohol increased and so did racketeering of corrupt law enforcement and government authorities by criminal organizations. This was also the time when the US mafia started to become more organized because of the money they were making from smuggling(from Canada) and manufacturing alcohol. Now replace alcohol with cigarettes and change the players involved to the corrupt government officials in the Philippines mixed in with criminal organizations from almost every country in Asia that has legal cigarettes. Does that sound like something that has a real chance of success as far as enforcement? The taxes that government collect is one thing and so is the employment of the farmers but not the only possible reason why it isn't banned. At the very least the government collects taxes from the sale of legal cigarettes as opposed to no money at all from the sale of smuggled cigarettes.

BTW I am not a smoker and don't like having cigarettes smoke around me. I just choose to view it from a historical point of view and try not to reinvent the wheel. Learn from the mistakes of others thus you are not doomed to repeat it. Just my .02.

[badsekktor]

kahit siguro i-ban yan hahanap at hahanap pa rin ang mga smokers since addictive kasi ang yosi.

[cutedoc]

ang sigarilyo, parang texting na din yan, nakakaadik, mahirap mawala sa sistema mo...

isa sa pinakamalaking market ng luxurious and taxable mechandize ang sigarilto, from all walks of life mapa mahirap o mayaman me naninigarilyo...

kung sa mahirap lang kinakain na malaki sa kalahati ang konsumo ng sigarilyo sa produksyon ng pilipinas, idagdag pa ang mga ine export

kung gagawing legal sa pilipinas ang paggawa ng marijuana, tiyak papatok din ang pinas...

fyi: 2nd hand or passive smoking is more dangerous than actual smoking, smokers tend to develop a system in which their body adapts to the habit, however passive smokers dont, thats why evidently its like smoking a cigarette without any filter...

[oldblue]

bec. if they ban cigarettes, the price per stick will just get higher (just like drugs and marijuana). and the govt will now fund another agency to regulate or police it.

back in the 1930's or al-capone days, outlawed ang alak/liquor. too many people died bec. of the illegal trade.

[uls]

Successful Products:

Rules # 1 and 2

1. it should be cheap

2. it should be habit-forming

[Bogeyman]

WHO urges smoking ban in public places
May 29, 2007 02:19:28 PM PST

The U.N. health agency on Tuesday issued its strongest policy recommendations yet for controlling tobacco use, urging all countries to ban smoking at indoor workplaces and in public buildings.

"The evidence is clear. There is no safe level of exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke," said Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization.

Tobacco use is the world's leading cause of preventable death, accounting for 10 percent of adult fatalities, according to WHO. It is responsible for 5.4 million deaths each year, a figure that is expected to rise to 8.3 million by 2030, the agency says.

Increasing numbers of nonsmokers will also die unless governments take action, WHO said in its 50-page report. It said governments of both rich and poor countries should declare all public indoor places smoke-free, by passing laws and actively enforcing measures to ensure that "everyone has a right to breathe clean air, free from tobacco smoke."

At least 200,000 workers die each year because of exposure to smoke at their offices and factories, according to the U.N. labor agency. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that about 3,000 deaths from lung cancer each year occur among nonsmoking Americans.

"This is not about shaming the smoker. This is not even about banning smoking," said Dr. Armando Peruga, who heads WHO's anti-tobacco campaign. "This is about society taking decisions about where to smoke and where not to smoke."

He cited Ireland and Uruguay as governments that have successfully tackled smoking by creating and enforcing smoke-free environments. Legislation of the kind has proved popular among both smokers and nonsmokers, according to WHO, whose policy recommendations set broad goals for its 193 member states but are not legally binding.

Almost half the world's children — some 700 million — are exposed to air polluted by tobacco smoke, particularly at home, WHO says. The agency made its recommendations on the basis of new reports by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the U.S. surgeon general and the California Environmental Protection Agency.

WHO said in 2005 that it had stopped hiring smokers, as part of what it termed its "public lead" in the fight against tobacco.

-- Associated Press

[jazcker]

tax tax tax....

Correct!!!
:chopper:

[mmanson]

masarap ang bawal. so pag pinagbawal ang yosi, lalong hahanap hanapin ng tao yan. baka magkagulo pa.

[finchy18]

be considerate.. tama ka.. pag may mga bata and ibang non smokers syempre umiwas diba..


OT: isa yan sa mga patok na benta nman ang cigars.

[mazdamazda]

PGMA just banned tobacco products from being advertised on billboards...

[oliver1013]

Smoker ako pero sana taasan yung tax sa yosi kahit triplehin pa, kasi para sakin bisyo to at masama sa katawan para yung mga tulad ko na nagyoyosi mag dadalawang isip bumili kung mahal na. At kung bibili parin kahit mahal e yun mtaas ang babayaran na tax. Tsaka sana yung tax na nadagdag sa basic commodities dito nalang hugutin sa yosi.

[czildjianako]

PGMA just banned tobacco products from being advertised on billboards...

pati yata commercial bawal but i might be wrong.

[AnuVaYan]

If we can't ban cigarettes, at least be stricter in implementing the age requirement. Ang alam ko maging dito sa Pinas, hindi pwede drinking and smoking sa minors, pero as a lot of laws dito sa atin, hindi naman nai-implement.

[cablespy]

Napaisip lang ako kanina habang nagyoyosi. Kung ang Droga like marijuana at shabu ay masama sa kalusugan ng tao add to it that it is addictive bakit di kaya i BAN ang Lahat ng sigarilyo?

ban lahat ng addictive at masama sa kalusugan? di lang yosi yan:

1. Softdrinks - contains caffein, addictive. causes diabetes and obesity.
2. Alchohol - dami nagpapatayan pag nakainom. liver damage.
3. Mcdonalds - fatty foods. clog arteries. very unhealthy food but parents feed it to kids.
4. coffee/tea - hardens and clogs arteries. Caffein.
5. Casino's - gambling is addictive. odd are always against you.

[Horsepower]

Well, it's a good step to stop advertisements. It's about time.

There are so many other industries people can earn money from.

Ako, iniiwasan ko talaga smokers. Sobrang bilang din ang kaibigan ko na smokers. Madali kasi ako mahilo sa cig smoke.

sa room ko, may smoke detector. Sa car, di pwede mag-smoke. Pag smoker ka, get out of my sight and smelling range first before you do because not only you're killing yourself, you're trying to kill me too. It doesn't matter who you are.

Usually lang naman sa mga smokers insecure eh because they lacked attention as a child and was deprived of love so they need to hang on to something (in this case, the vice of smoking). May psychological term for this na nakalimutan ko na. They need to be noticed that they're in & "cool" to belong. Tingnan nyo sa call centers, yung mga dating di smokers, naging smokers na rin. Yun yung mahihina ang self-esteem. Fools.