Broadcasters Manual - Final - Small

Southeast Asia Initiative
on Tobacco Tax (SITT)
Dear Friends in Media:
This broadcasters’ manual on the Sin Tax Bill currently pending in the Philippine Congress has been produced to disseminate facts, facilitate discussion,
and gather support for the proposed legislation.
Sources:
Material for this Broadcasters’ Manual
The World Health Organization has long established that the single most
effective intervention to curb tobacco consumption is to impose substantial
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dangers of tobacco use.
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enues of government, providing more resources for healthcare programs.
This Broadcasters’ Manual, published with the support of the
Tobacco Tax Paper on Affordability and
Philippines, p. 2-3, 5
Ultimately, Sin Tax is an Anti-Cancer Tax, as the Manual establishes.
Card, p. 23
piece of legislation, and about the harmful effects of tobacco use in general.
Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance
Ang yosi at ang usok nito ay may 4,000 na kemikal tulad na lamang ng:
- ginagamit
pang embalsamo
The Sin Tax Bill is supported by the Philippine College of
Physicians, the Philippine College of Chest Physicians, the
Philippine Cancer Society, Inc., the Framework Convention
on Tobacco Control Alliance Philippines, the Philippine Society of Gastroenterology, HealthJustice and the DOH.
- galing sa usok ng
mga sasakyan. Ito ang binubuga ng tambutso
- pang alis ng nailpolish
- pangunahing nilalaman ng baterya
ng kotse
- nilalagay sa sigarilyo dahil tumutulong itong ma –addict ka sa nicotine
- nilalaman ng gasolina
Ang paninigarilyo ay ang pangunahing sanhi ng Kanser sa
baga. Ito rin ay maaring maging dahilan ng paglaganap ng
iba pang uri ng kanser sa larynx, lalamunan, esophagus, tiyan, pancreas, colon, at anus.
Sa Pilipinas, ang top cancer killers ay: kanser sa baga, suso,
cervix, liver, colon and rectum, prostate, tiyan, bibig o oral
cavity, ovary and leukemia.
Every 10 percent increase in
the price of cigarettes results
in a 7 percent decline in youth
smoking, and a 4 percent decline in overall smoking - WHO
The treaty recognizes the tobacco epidemic as a global problem with serious conseexposure to tobacco smoke cause death, disease and disability.
The WHO FCTC also recognizes that cigarettes are highly engineered to create and
maintain dependence and that tobacco exposure has adverse health and development
conditions for women and children, especially for girls.
10 - Dami ng Pinoy na namamatay kadaoras dulot ng paninigarilyo
200,000 - Dami ng Pinoy na
maaring magkaroon ng smoking related diseases sa kanilang ‘productive
years’ kada taon, ayon sa WHO
23 - cups o order ng kanin na
mabibili sa halagang katumbas ng
isang pakete ng Marlboro
- dami ng buhay na maaring mailigtas, kung maisa-batas ang Sin Tax Bill.
The Sin Tax Bill is supported
by the Philippine College of
Physicians, the Philippine
College of Chest Physicians,
the Philippine Cancer Society,
Inc., the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Alliance Philippines, the
Philippine Society of Gastroenterology, HealthJustice, and
the DOH.
Higit na mas mura ang sigarilyo sa Pilipinas, kung ihahambing sa presyo sa ibang bansa, kung kaya maraming kabataan at maralita ang nalululon sa paninigarilyo.
$0
$1
$2
$3
$4
$5
$6
$7
$8
$9
$10
$11
$11.30
Singapore
$10.69
Vanuatu
$7.74
Australia
$7.43
Tonga
$6.95
New Zealand
Malaysia
$5.54
Samoa
$5.51
Japan
$2.71
Brunei Darussalam
$2.29
Viet Nam
$1.99
Mongolia
$1.94
Lao People's Democratic Republic
China
Philippines
$12
$1.46
$1.29
$0.86
Cheapest brand
Most sold brand
Magkano ang ginagastos ng bayan sa health care ng dahil sa pagyoyosi?
ang ginagastos ng Pilipinas taun-taon sa panggagamot ng kanser, heart
attack, stroke, at chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – mga sakit na
dulot ng paninigarilyo at usok ng sigarilyo.
Every 10 percent increase in
the price of cigarettes results
in a 7 percent decline in youth
smoking, and a 4 percent decline in overall smoking - WHO
– Department
of Health
Every 10 percent increase in the
price of cigarettes results in a 7
percent decline in youth smoking, and a 4 percent decline in
overall smoking - WHO
Sa buong mundo, pang siyam ang Pilipi-
The country has seen little
change in its smoking prevalence
There is high tobacco use among
the youth, and rising tobacco use
among women and girls – the
highest in Southeast Asia, in fact.
porsiyento). Base sa 2009 Global Adult
Tobacco Survey (GATS), humigit ku-
mundo, at pinakamataas sa Southeast
Asia.
Ang Kanser sa baga ang leading form
ng kanser sa ating bansa, dahil na rin sa
mataas na smoking rates, lalong lalo na
sa mga kalalakihan.
Mga kalahati sa kabuuang populasyon
ng kalalkihan sa Pilipinas ay naninigarilyo.
Marami sa ating mga kababaihan ay
maari ring mag-develop ng Kanser sa
baga dulot ng second hand smoke.
Leaving things unchanged will leave many children
orphaned and will have a negative effect on our economic development.
Inaction will also cost the Philippines billions of pesos
for health care, chemotherapy and palliative care.
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in the Philippines were attributed to cancer.
Every 10 percent increase in
the price of cigarettes results
in a 7 percent decline in youth
smoking, and a 4 percent decline in overall smoking - WHO
We expect the deaths from cancers to increase. If we
do not act now, this could become a full blown epidemic of early death for our workforce.
Kapag may Sin Tax, tataas
ang presyo ng mga produktong pambisyo.
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Mababawasan ang dami ng umiinom
at naninigarilyo, lalo na sa hanay ng
kabataan at mga mahihirap
Mababawasan ang kanser at ibang
sakit na dulot ng mga bisyo
Madadagdagan ang buwis na mapupunta sa kaban ng gobyerno
Makakatipid ang gobyerno at lipunan sa
mga gastusing panggamot sa sakit na
dulot ng paninigarilyo
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Every 10 percent increase in
the price of cigarettes results
in a 7 percent decline in youth
smoking, and a 4 percent decline in overall smoking - WHO
Smokers are not the only ones at risk of
cancer.
Second-hand smoke is a carcinogen.
According to the WHO, half of all Filipino women and children are exposed
to second hand smoke.
Many women develop cancer not because they smoke but because they
live with smokers.
Every 10 percent increase in
the price of cigarettes results
in a 7 percent decline in youth
smoking, and a 4 percent decline in overall smoking - WHO
There is a high prevalence
of smoking among the FiliFilipino students between the
tax law will be children and youth who will not start
smoking and will be protected from second hand
smoke of adults.
The tobacco industry wants to hook young people
with addictive nicotine early. That’s why a vote in
favor of sin tax is a vote for Filipino children.
Every 10 percent increase in the price of
cigarettes results in
a 7 percent decline
in youth smoking,
and a 4 percent
decline in overall
smoking - WHO
Sila ang sadyang target ng mga
naglalako ng sigarilyo o tobacco
industry.
Sa isang ‘developing country’ tulad ng Pilipinas, ang mahirap ang
pinakamalaking hanay ng lipunan.
Every 10 percent increase in the price of cigarettes
results in a 7 percent decline in youth smoking, and a
4 percent decline in overall smoking - WHO
Dahil mas mababa ang antas ng
kanilang edukasyon, mas madali
rin silang malinlang at mahikayat
na manigarilyo, dulot ng mga pakana ng tobacco industry .
The Sin Tax Bill needs your support
Every 10 percent increase in the price of
cigarettes results in
a 7 percent decline
in youth smoking,
and a 4 percent
decline in overall
smoking - WHO
Invite your family, friends who were former smokers to
make testimonies on the hazards of smoking and its effects to their health
Talk to your family, friends and immediate community
about the hazards of smoking and the present status of
implementation of anti smoking ordinance/resolutions
Mobilize socio-civic organizations, advocates for children’s health, public health
Mobilize cancer support and survivor groups to speak
up in support of the sin tax law as an anti-cancer law
dence in your advocacy efforts
Take every opportunity to advocate the Sin Tax Bill
Live a healthy lifestyle, stop smoking
should support the
twin goals of:
youth and the poor from smoking and drinking
alcohol, thus protecting them from the lifetime
consequences of smoking and alcohol abuse;
and
to improve accessibility to quality health care.
The Sin Tax Bill is supported by the
Philippine College of Physicians, the
Philippine College of Chest Physicians, the Philippine Cancer Society,
Inc., the Framework Convention on
Tobacco Control Alliance Philippines,
the Philippine Society of Gastroenterology, HealthJustice, and the DOH.
...it is crafted for the long term
the Sin Tax should adopt the nominal GDP
for index. This will ensure that tobacco and
alcohol products will not become more affordable as income rises over time.
...it is more helpful to farmers
a substantial percentage
of excise taxes on tobacco
should be allocated to
programs to help tobacco
farmers shift to alternative
crops and livelihoods other
than tobacco. It should also
put in place programs to
help prevent job losses, and/or provide assistance to displaced works.
...it strengthens Universal Health Care
The Sin Tax should provide for:
Expansion of the National Health Insurance Program (NHIP) enrollment and
Upgrading of health-care facilities, thus
improving access to quality health care
services.
Public health programs to include
research and development to achieve
Millennium Development Goals, including addressing non- communicable
diseases/lifestyle diseases