Price-increase on cigarettes by 2011. Yays !
Posted in Events, Reviews, Uncategorized on August 17th, 2010 by Joan Mae – 6 Comments
Wow, I just heard this from my officemates while we were puffin last night, and I was like ” No way?! Php 7.00 per cigarette stick?? Are you kidding mee?? ” and well,they’re positive as ever. “Hell yea! 7 per stick, it’ll kill your pocket as much as it kill your lungs”. So I figured that anytime next year, we are gonna go through a Hey-you-owe-me-one-stick phase and No-more-paBAM-muna yosi breaks ”
And my next question is:
Why the hell is this happening?
I know this came out some time last week in papers and TV, but I just found it out the other day, so Im readin my own stuff. According to Philstar ( its a newspaper in the Philippines, just so you know ) there was a proposal to “impose a P90 tax per 20-stick pack of cigarettes by the Dept of Health Secretary to raise more revenues for the government“. Although there hasn’t been any policy discussion on this proposal yet but Im seeing sky-high chances of this being approved.
Makes sense to me though…
Well, the reason why they’re adopting the US tax scheme for cigarettes,proposed by President Obama, is to reduce access to tobacco since they are reducing the capacity of people to afford it. And theyre eyeing on minors.. Population of kids getting into the habit is increasing due to the availability of cigarettes at the price they can afford. And besides, smoking is dangerous!! Like really dangerous , coz youre gonna die of lung cancer!! People are dying every year because they cant stop puffin’ ** oh god.. convince me ** Uhmm I smoke.. sometimes.. well yea.. not really -_- ( okey lets not talk about me coz my mom’s gonna kill me if she ever read this). And yea, I think the will to quit should be personal. It all boils down to controlling one’s self and resisting the urge. Yays..







