Social Issue : Smoking
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Cigarettes are freely available and reasonably
priced
Cigarettes are easily available to most
individuals, including very young people who
do not yet have their own source of income
According to the
results of the
2009 Global Adult
Tobacco Survey,
twenty-eight
percent or 17.3
million of Filipino
individuals aged
15 and above are
current tobacco
users.