More than 35,000 Filipinos die every year because of smoking. Smoking is one of the silent epidemic that Philippines has encountered. In this, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III has warned the public about the evil effects of smoking to your health.

Secretary Francisco Duque said: "The tobacco epidemic has spread practically to every corner of the country so much so that the youngest smoker is only seven years old."

United Nations health experts already warned all nations that its government must really get serious about cutting smoking rates and it not then a billion people around the world will die of tobacco-related diseases this century.

In this, the Secretary of Health together with the Philippines government are waging war against smoking. In this the government bans tobacco related advertisements because it is a scientific evidence that it provides a provides a strong link between tobacco advertisement and the spread of smoking. As we all know that smoking is a chronic addictive disorder that provides people with a disastrous health consequences such as lung cancer, blood cancer, cardiovascular diseases, chronic obstructive airways disease, and more than 20 other conditions. Now that an estimated of 85 percent of lung cancer cases are related to smoking. A stick of cigarette contains 4,400 chemical components, of which 43 are cancer-causing.

A study shows that there are cases of premature deaths that is caused by smoking and also it results in lost productivity and lost income for families and the national economy. It also shows that about 18 to 30 percent of students in high schools, and about 30 to 40 percent of college students who are smoking. The records of World Health Organization (WHO) show also that there are over 1.3 billion smokers worldwide and almost 5 million die from ling and health diseases every year due to smoking.