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DOH to push picture-based warnings on cigarette packs  

GOOD news for anti-smoking advocates, but bad news for the tobacco industry in general.

The Department of Health will push for the printing of "picture-based warnings" against tobacco use on cigarette packs being sold to the public.

Stressing the need to intensify the government's campaign against the ill-effects of cigarette smoking, Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral told a news conference on Friday that she favored the strategy.

The DOH would implement as soon as possible a "draft administrative order" covering such warnings, Cabral told anti-smoking advocates like the Philippine College of Chest Physicians (PCCP) and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Alliance-Philippines (FCAP).

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