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At the Apact conference, the peculiarities of the Philippine situation earned special mention in the presentation made by Dr. Ian Olver, the CEO of Cancer Council Australia, who said:
“Philip Morris Philippines sells packs with text-only warnings to Filipinos, but exports packs with graphic warnings to Thailand. However,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], when the Philippine government tried to introduce graphic warnings to Filipinos, (the company) is suing the government.”
“That’s the sort of anomaly there,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],” Olver later told the Inquirer. “That’s how hard the tobacco industry will fight.”
“If the law allows them to win, then perhaps the Philippines has to look at its own law,” he said.
Michael Farrar, deputy director of compliance and enforcement at the state Authority Budget Office, said auditors would likely find the expense logs to be insufficiently detailed and he questioned the public benefit of entertaining at smoke shops.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
“If entertaining takes place, you have to ask, ‘What is the result?’” Farrar said. “If it is simply to entertain because that’s what’s done in the private sector and that’s how business is done, that is not a valid reason for a public benefit corporation.”
The authority expends tax dollars for capital projects and benefits from tax-free bonds, but its annual operating budget of about $32 million is derived from airline landing and rental fees, concessions, parking, rental cars and the like.
Two years later, at an international summit that gathered some 700 delegates from 41 countries, the Philippine record in curbing smoking provided a stark example of what advocates like Assunta call “tobacco industry interference” in the government’s duty to safeguard people’s health.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Held in Sydney from Oct. 6 to 9,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the 9th Asia Pacific Conference on Tobacco or Health (Apact 2010) served as an occasion to assess how the 171 signatory nations, including the Philippines, had complied with the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the first international treaty initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO).