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A 9211 TOBACCO REGULATION ACT IN 2003

LAW AIMS TO: Promote a healthful environment by prohibiting smoking in public places and designating smoking and non smoking areas where applicable.
Inform the public of the health risks

associated with cigarette smoking and tobacco use.

 Regulate and subsequently ban all tobacco advertisements and sponsorships. Regulate the labeling of tobacco products. Protect the youth from being initiated into cigarette smoking and tobacco use by prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to minors and within 100 meter radius from a schools perimeter fence.

NO SMOKING IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS Dep. Ed. Ordr No. 73 dated May 28, 2010 signed by Secretary Mona D. Valisno
The ban stipulated that the schools including the students, teachers and non teaching staff are covered and ensured strict implementation of the ban in all school premises to protect school children from inhaling secondhand smoke.

The order also instructed school heads to put up NO SMOKING signs in conspicuous places around the school compound. A sign bearing YOU ARE ENTERING A NO SMOKING AREA must be also displayed in entry points such as gates and side entrances. Regional and Division officials are instructed to oversee the implementation of this order in schools under their supervision. According to Assistant Secretary and Dep. Ed. Spokesperson Jonathan Malaya Student caught violating the no smoking rule will be brought to the principals office. Even teachers and employees are covered by the nosmoking rule. And those who will violate the rule will a get a warning that may lead to suspension in case of repeated offenses.

CSC RULES ON SMOKING

Smoking is prohibited in government buildings,

grounds and premises except for designated outdoor smoking areas.

However in places providing services relating to health

centers, schools, universities, colleges and center of youth activity. Smoking is absolutely prohibited and smoking areas are not allowed.
Smoking is also prohibited in government-public

vehicles.

Smoking is allowed to marked outdoor smoking areas that are:

Located in an open-space with no

permanent or temporary roof or walls and limited to only one smoking area per government building. Not within 10 meters (33 feet) of entrances, exits or any place where people pass or congregate. Not larger than 10 square meters and Not serving food or drinks.

The CSC policy also recommends all ashtrays and any receptacle made for dispensing cigarettes refuse must be removed except in smoking areas and it shall be the responsibility of the government building administrator to ensure strict compliance within the requirements of the smoking area.

Violators of this circular are subjected to disciplinary action Pursuant to Rule XIV (Discipline) OMNIBUS RULES IMPLEMENTING BOOK V OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 292. This policy is designed to promote safe and healthy work places and to protect government workers as well as the public from second-hand smoke which can cause life threatening diseases.

YOSI GAGA
PINAY top 16 (3,848,908) in the worlds female smoking population according to Tobacco Atlas by the American Society. About 250 million women are daily smokers. 22% in high income countries e.g., USA, Europe, Canada etc. 9% in low and medium income countries including Philippines. The tobacco industry market cigarettes using seductive but false images of VITALITY, SLIMNESS, EMANCIPATION, SOPHISTICATION and SEXUAL ALLURE.

But in reality, smoking causes:

REPRODUCTIVE DAMAGE DISEASES AND DEATH

The statistics on girls as young as 13 years old becoming addicted to smoking. According to WHO, cigarette smoking is a Communicated Disease. The tobacco companies communicate through their advertising the romance and the social benefits of smoking.

19.6% young Filipino women from 2nd year to 4th year high school students use tobacco products. As of 2007 survey, 13% and by 2009 to 19.6% representing 2.8 Filipino women aged 15 years and older currently smoke.
Smoking and secondhand smoke impose exceptional health risk of reproductive age, particularly or pregnant women as well on babies.

Medical studies shown that female smokers take longer to conceive and may eventually result in a depletion of ova and cause INFERTILITY. Maternal smoking or exposure to smoke during the pregnancy is associated with increased premature detachment of the placenta, abnormal placenta attachment to the uterus, abnormal vaginal bleeding and ruptured membranes and may greatly increase risk of MATERNAL and NEONATAL DEATH

Second-hand smoke is the smoke that comes from the tip of a burning cigarette, pipe or cigar and when a smokers exhales. It contains over 4,000 chemical compounds, 50 of which are associated with or known to cause cancer.
2/3 of smoke from a cigarette is not inhaled by the smoker, but enters the air around the smoker. Second-hand smoke has at least twice the nicotine and tar as the smoke inhaled by the smoker. It has 5x the amount of carbon monoxide, a deadly gas that robs the blood of oxygen, high level of ammonia, cadmium, hydrogen cyanide etc.

Harmful Substances in Tobacco

Tobacco contains more than 4000 chemicals, 43 of which have been proven to be carcinogenic.
Acetone used in nail polish Acetic acid used in vinegar Ammonia used in food and toilet cleaners Arsenic used to make rat poison Butane used in cigarette lighter fluid Cadmium used in rechargeable batteries Carbon monoxide found in exhaust fumes DDT/Dieldrin used in insecticide Ethanol alcohol Nicotine alcalaid poison used as an insecticide. Addicting substance Formaldehyde used to preserve dead bodies Hexamine used in lighter fluid Hydrogen cyanide used in gas chambers Methane used like gasoline Napthalene used to make mothballs Nitrobenzene used as gasoline additive Nitrous Oxide used as disinfectant Stearic Acid used in candle wax Toluene used as industrial solvent Vinyl chloride used to make PVC pipe

Cancer causing agents include: Nitrosamine, Crysenes, Cadmium, Benzo(a)pyrene, Polonium 210, Nickel, P.A.H., Dibenz acidine, B-napthylamine, Urethane, N. nitrosonornicotine and Toluidine. Metals in cigarette smoke include: Aluminum, Zinc, Magnesium, Mercury, Gold, Silicon, Silver, Titanium, Lead and Copper.

TAR is deposited in lung passages, paralyzes the cleaning mechanisms (cilia) and damages the air sacs (alveoli). It is responsible for many of the cancers and lung diseases.

Second-hand smoke aggravate symptoms of allergies and asthma, can cause eye, nose and throat irritation, headaches, dizziness, nausea, coughing and wheezing. It can cause lung cancer, heart disease, COPD like emphysema and chronic bronchitis. According to Paris-based International Union against Tuberculosis and the World Lung Foundation an estimate of 20% heart attacks in Metro Manila may be done to second-hand smoke exposure.

The third-hand smoke refers to the cigarette by products that cling to the smokers hair, clothing as well as to the walls, ceiling, floor, carpets, furniture, appliances, fabrics, even children toys, even if after the second-hand smoke has cleared.

The danger of these invisible toxins may affect babies who breathe near, crawl on, play on, touch and mouth contaminated purposes. Among the substances in the third-hand smoke are hydrogen cyanide used in chemical weapons , butane used in lighter fluid, toluene found in paint thinner, arsenic to poison rats and other insects, carbon monoxide and even Polonium-210, a highly active radioactive carcinogen.

HOW SMOKING HARMS YOU

Parts of the body especially affected by tobacco use

HAIR Smell and staining BRAIN AND MENTAL EFFECTS Strokes (cerebrovascular accidents) Addiction/withdrawal Altered brain chemistry Anxiety about harm caused by smoking

EYES Eyes sting, water and blink more Blindness (macular degeneration) Cataracts

NOSE Less sense of smell

RESPIRATION AND LUNGS Lung cancer Cough and sputum, shortness of breath Colds and flu, pneumonia, asthma Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and emphysema TEETH Discoloration and stains Plague Loose teeth Gum disease (gingivitis)

MOUTH AND THROAT Cancer of lips, mouth, throat and larynx Sore throat Reduced sense of taste Breath smells of smoke

SKIN Wrinkles, premature ageing

LIVER Cancer HEART Harms, blocks and weakens arteries of the heart Heart attack

HANDS Poor circulation (cold fingers): peripheral vascular disease CHEST Cancer of esophagus KIDNEYS AND BLADDER Cancer

ABDOMEN Stomach and duodenal ulcers Cancer of stomach, pancreas, colon Aortic aneurysm

MALE REPRODUCTION
Sperm: deformity, loss of motility, reduced

number Infertility Impotence FEMALE REPRODUCTION Period pains Earlier menopause Cancer of cervix Infertility and delay in menstruation

WOUNDS AND SURGERY Wounds take longer to heal Operation wounds take longer to heal BONES Osteoporosis Spine and hip fractures BLOOD Leukemia BURNS From fires caused by tobacco

DIABETES Non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus

IMMUNE SYSTEM Weakened LEGS AND FEET Increased leg pain and gangrene: peripheral vascular disease Buergers disease

Tobacco offers us a life of slavery, a host of chronic, debilitating illnesses and ultimately death. And think about it: We pay big bucks for those "benefits." Sad, but true.