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Jump to full article: Philippine Daily Inquirer (ph), 2008-04-18
Author: Ronnel Domingo Philippine Daily Inquirer
Intro: A group of tobacco control advocates Thursday threatened to file criminal charges against convenience store chain 7-Eleven and cigarette maker Fortune Tobacco Corp. for allegedly violating the ban on outdoor tobacco advertising.
Maricar Limpin, executive director of Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Alliance of the Philippines (FCAP), said in a statement that the group had filed a complaint with the Inter-Agency Committee-Tobacco (IAC-T) headed by the Department of Trade and Industry.
The FCAP is a nongovernmental coalition of doctors, medical experts and civil society groups working to curb “the tobacco epidemic.”
Limpin, a medical doctor, said FCAP discovered that tobacco ads in the form of movable banners were openly displayed outside 7-Eleven stores.
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