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Southeast Asia Initiative on Tobacco Tax (SITT)
Dear Friends in Media:
This broadcasters’ manual on the Sin Tax Bill currently pending in the Philip-pine Congress has been produced to disseminate facts, facilitate discussion, and gather support for the proposed legislation.
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The Sin Tax Bill is supported by the Philippine College of Physicians, the Philippine College of Chest Physicians, the Philippine Cancer Society, Inc., the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Alliance Philippines, the Philippine So-ciety of Gastroenterology, HealthJustice and the DOH.
Ang paninigarilyo ay ang pangunahing sanhi ng Kanser sa baga. Ito rin ay maaring maging dahilan ng paglaganap ng iba pang uri ng kanser sa larynx, lalamunan, esophagus, ti-yan, pancreas, colon, at anus.
Sa Pilipinas, ang top cancer killers ay: kanser sa baga, suso, cervix, liver, colon and rectum, prostate, tiyan, bibig o oral cavity, ovary and leukemia.
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The WHO FCTC also recognizes that cigarettes are highly engineered to create and maintain dependence and that tobacco exposure has adverse health and development conditions for women and children, especially for girls.
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Magkano ang ginagastos ng bayan sa health care ng dahil sa pagyoyosi?
3����%,//,21ang ginagastos ng Pilipinas taun-taon sa panggagamot ng kanser, heart attack, stroke, at chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – mga sakit na dulot ng paninigarilyo at usok ng sigarilyo.
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change in its smoking prevalence
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the youth, and rising tobacco use
among women and girls – the
highest in Southeast Asia, in fact.
�� Sa buong mundo, pang siyam ang Pilipi-
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Tobacco Survey (GATS), humigit ku-
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Asia.
�� Ang Kanser sa baga ang leading form
ng kanser sa ating bansa, dahil na rin sa
mataas na smoking rates, lalong lalo na
sa mga kalalakihan.
�� Mga kalahati sa kabuuang populasyon
ng kalalkihan sa Pilipinas ay naninigari-
lyo.
�� Marami sa ating mga kababaihan ay
maari ring mag-develop ng Kanser sa
baga dulot ng second hand smoke.
Leaving things unchanged will leave many children orphaned and will have a negative effect on our eco-nomic development.
Inaction will also cost the Philippines billions of pesos for health care, chemotherapy and palliative care.
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Kapag may Sin Tax, tataas
ang presyo ng mga produk-
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�� Mababawasan ang dami ng umiinom
at naninigarilyo, lalo na sa hanay ng
kabataan at mga mahihirap
�� Mababawasan ang kanser at ibang
sakit na dulot ng mga bisyo
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�� Madadagdagan ang buwis na mapu-
punta sa kaban ng gobyerno
�� Makakatipid ang gobyerno at lipunan sa
mga gastusing panggamot sa sakit na
dulot ng paninigarilyo
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cancer.
�� Second-hand smoke is a carcinogen.
�� According to the WHO, half of all Fili-
pino women and children are exposed
to second hand smoke.
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cause they smoke but because they
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of smoking among the Fili-
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smoking and will be protected from second hand
smoke of adults.
The tobacco industry wants to hook young people
with addictive nicotine early. That’s why a vote in
favor of sin tax is a vote for Filipino children.
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Sila ang sadyang target ng mga
naglalako ng sigarilyo o tobacco
industry.
Sa isang ‘developing country’ tu-
lad ng Pilipinas, ang mahirap ang
pinakamalaking hanay ng lipunan.
Dahil mas mababa ang antas ng
kanilang edukasyon, mas madali
rin silang malinlang at mahikayat
na manigarilyo, dulot ng mga paka-
na ng tobacco industry .Every 10 percent increase in the price of cigarettes results in a 7 percent decline in youth smoking, and a 4 percent decline in overall smoking - WHO
�� Invite your family, friends who were former smokers to
make testimonies on the hazards of smoking and its ef-
fects to their health
�� Talk to your family, friends and immediate community
about the hazards of smoking and the present status of
implementation of anti smoking ordinance/resolutions
�� Mobilize socio-civic organizations, advocates for chil-
dren’s health, public health
�� Mobilize cancer support and survivor groups to speak
up in support of the sin tax law as an anti-cancer law
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dence in your advocacy efforts
�� Take every opportunity to advocate the Sin Tax Bill
�� Live a healthy lifestyle, stop smoking
The Sin Tax Bill needs your support
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twin goals of:
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alcohol, thus protecting them from the lifetime
consequences of smoking and alcohol abuse;
and
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The Sin Tax Bill is supported by the
Philippine College of Physicians, the
Philippine College of Chest Physi-
cians, the Philippine Cancer Society,
Inc., the Framework Convention on
Tobacco Control Alliance Philippines,
the Philippine Society of Gastroenter-
ology, HealthJustice, and the DOH.
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for index. This will ensure that tobacco and
alcohol products will not become more af-
fordable as income rises over time.
...it is more helpful to farmersa substantial percentage
of excise taxes on tobacco
should be allocated to
programs to help tobacco
farmers shift to alternative
crops and livelihoods other
than tobacco. It should also
put in place programs to
help prevent job losses, and/or provide as-
sistance to displaced works.
...it strengthens Universal Health Care
The Sin Tax should provide for:
�� Expansion of the National Health Insur-
ance Program (NHIP) enrollment and
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improving access to quality health care
services.
�� Public health programs to include
research and development to achieve
Millennium Development Goals, includ-
ing addressing non- communicable
diseases/lifestyle diseases