Did you know: No Smoking Month | Inquirer News

Did you know: No Smoking Month

/ 02:18 AM June 05, 2013

June has been declared “No Smoking Month” through Presidential Proclamation No. 183, which was signed in 1993. According to the Department of Health and World Health Organization, there are about 17.3 million smokers in the country and an average of 10 Filipino smokers die from tobacco-related diseases every hour.—Schatzi Quodala, Inquirer Research

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