VARIOUS medical groups joined the City Government and the Bacolod Anti-Smoking Task Force in observance of the World No Tobacco Day recently.
The event started with a motorcade and then a Unified Signing of the Philippine College of Chest Physicians (PCCP) Position Statement on Electronic Cigarettes and Smoking.
Joining PCCP are the Philippine Medical Society, Philippine Pediatric Society, Negros Occidental Medical Society, and the City Health Office of Bacolod.
The Bacolod Anti-Smoking Task Force is led by Mayor Albee Benitez and Councilor Simple Distrito
Atty. Caesar Z. Distrito, was the guest speaker, and the author of CO 641 or otherwise known as the Comprehensive Bacolod Anti-Smoking Ordinance series of 2013), and the CO No. 09-17-817 or the E-Cigarettes Regulation Ordinance.
“It is both my personal and community advocacy to campaign against smoking. My father, the late Ronnie Distrito and my grandfather, Mariano Distrito, both died due to the ill effects of smoking. Effects of Secondary Smoking is even much dangerous; thus, people should be educated and at the same time, be disciplined from smoking cigarettes and vaping.” Former Councilor Caesar Distrito said.
Atty. Caesar Distrito’s advocacy against anti-smoking expressly reminds the citizens of Bacolod to be better informed and be more responsible with regards to the ill effects of smoking and secondary smoking. (PR)