Davao named first smoke-free metropolitan city in Southeast Asia

[zam_xy]

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If you're a smoker, you might as well drop the habit when in Davao.

This, as Davao City has been named the first 100-percent smoke-free metropolitan in Southeast Asia, more than a decade after its implementation of a city-wide smoking ban

The Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (Seatca) July 7 recognized Davao City for successfully implementing its Comprehensive Anti-Smoking Ordinance passed in 2002.

Davao City should serve as a “model city in implementing law against smoking,” local media quoted Seatca director Bungon Ritthiphakdee as saying.

She was speaking at the sidelines of a regional workshop on best anti-smoking practices in Davao, attended by representatives from ASEAN member countries.

Seatca is a multi-sectoral alliance supporting ASEAN countries in developing tobacco control policies. It works closely with the ASEAN governments and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Davao last May further tightened its anti-smoking rules through the implementation of the New Comprehensive Anti-Smoking Ordinance.

Violators will now be given citation tickets under the updated policy, which now covers all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and shishas.

The new ordinance also broadens the coverage of the smoking ban, to include all public places, buildings and outdoor spaces, and public and government-owned vehicles.

Several local governments have put in place policies similar to Davao’s anti-smoking ban, in support of the Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003.

Albay, for instance, has rolled out a provincial policy, even as five of its towns have local smoking bans. The province also recently made the biggest human no-smoking sign.

WHO earlier this year recognized President Benigno Aquino III and other ranking government officials for their efforts at curbing tobacco consumption among Pinoys.

The Philippines early this year rolled out higher taxes for tobacco and alcohol products through a controversial Aquino-backed revamp of the so-called “sin tax” law.
Davao named first smoke-free metropolitan city in Southeast Asia

[lstorya]

I'm not from Davao but I'm always so proud of this city. This along with all the extra judicial killings wiping out the s**t in the streets, thumbs up.

[zach]

Mangambot nalang ko sa CEBU.

[kit_cebu]

Mangambot nalang ko sa CEBU.

the only thing that davao needs to surpass cebu is infrastructure...nya karon, daghan na rabang call centers didto...

[tonioyantao]

the only thing that davao needs to surpass cebu is infrastructure...nya karon, daghan na rabang call centers didto...

and condos don't forget the condos which is unheard off a few years ago in davao.
hiring na daw ang convergys davao.

[canister_sa_puwet]

thumbs up!

I'm not from Davao but I'm always so proud of this city. This along with all the extra judicial killings wiping out the s**t in the streets, thumbs up.

[THE KID]

Ang davao kai walai

Spoiler! 

[Eyemesem]

but but but

some poster named Sarevok said in another thread nga dili man DAW mahimo nga maban dayon ang tinood nga cigarettes. mao nang magsugod LANG sa DAW sa e-cigarettes, unya na DAW nang tinood na cigarettes

susmaryosep kung ingon ana na lang ang lebel sa atong pangutok nga kanang "pwede na", kanang dili ig-on ang tinood og ang pinakadako nga problema



good for Davao! that should be the way to go. dili kanang mahimong lobbyist sa mga vested interests from tobacco companies

[AntitaniC]

Bitaw pag adto naku sa davao last april... wala pakoi nakit-an nag smoke... ahaha.. piti d.i ang mag smoke smoke ngadto..

na bag-ohan pa gyud kos ilang traffic ngadto... always flowing.. dili ho-ut ug dili traffic bisag nig puyo kos heart of the city in a condo sa linmar Condo... tapad nga unit ako nakit-an ni siya nga nanoktok ahy...



kato paku kahibaw nga taga davao pud d.i ni siya... sige mani gawas sa cebu's prettiest and sexiest faces.. haha

[THE KID]

^^ pag pa nuktok Nic mao pud na iyang gi sul ob?