Last sunday, May 29, I was delighted by the article from Yahoo! Philippines News about the smoking ban in public places in metro manila. Haaay sa wakas napansin din! Naimplement na dapat to nung 2003 pa!!
Authorities in the Philippine capital Manila on Sunday announced a drive to strictly enforce a smoking ban in public places across the sprawling metropolis.
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority said that from Monday it would deploy policemen and specially trained enforcers across the city of 12 million people to round up violators.
"We must be very strict in implementing our anti-smoking regulation," agency chairman Francis Tolentino said in a statement.
"We should transform Metro Manila into a smoke-free community."
The announcement took effect last monday and violators will be fined P500 on first offense, while those who cannot afford to pay will be made to do community service.
This is goodnews because i am the first person who really hate cigarette because first, the smell of the nicotine sucks! second, it's a huge threat to our health {think CANCER}, third, just a waste of money, fourth, the effects to our beauty is awful {think yellow teeth and nails, wrinkles, eyebags, damaged hair and blackish lips..eww}.
I just hope that the authorities will be stricter in implementing this rule this time. God please help us from being a second hand smoke victim.
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