‘Smoking kills 10 Pinoys every hour’ VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 10/04/2011

‘Smoking kills 10 Pinoys every hour’

VIEWPOINTS

Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz

10/04/2011
So estimates the World Health Organization. So surfaces the big danger to the life of smokers. So warns different medical associations about the inherent menace of even but the so-called “second hand” smoke coming from someone’s tobacco consumption. And for all intents and purposes, the Department of Health as well as local medical research entities agrees to the moral effect of smoking — to the smokers themselves as well as those who inhale the smoke they blow and spread around. There are immediate conclusions to this established truth and standing reality.

The so-called “sin tax” such as those precisely imposed on cigarette manufacturers is neither irreverent nor ridiculous. The “sin” precisely consists in the production of poison, the advancement of addiction, the promotion of death. This is some kind of a suicide. This is not really that different from the cultivation, sale and consumption of prohibited drugs — giving advent to the so-called “drug lords,” “drug mules,” “drug dens” and other atrocious phenomena..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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