To shorten procedures, they stuffed the cash in cigarette packs and threw them from their cab windows.
What this analogy misses, and what SB 914 recognizes, is the significant distinctions between cellphones and cigarette packs.
One room is decorated with tiny cards depicting vintage Thai celebrities that were giveaways in gum or cigarette packs.
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There is "no good evidence" that standardised cigarette packs would lead to more smuggling, a group of MPs and peers say.
Forgotten in all of this, of course, is the fact that cigarette packs have carried health-warning labels on them for 40 years.
It would prohibit the sale of discounted tobacco products, impose packaging requirements on cheap cigars and create a price floor for cigarette packs and small cigars.
Many states and cities now ban smoking altogether in indoor spaces, and cigarette packs are always a popular target when lawmakers are looking to raise taxes.
At the ministerial meeting in May it is expected to seek the right to opt out of any clauses that it finds unacceptable, such as the ones imposing an advertising ban and a minimum size for health warnings on cigarette packs.
Under the law, cigarette packs with a net retail price of Phillipine peso11.50, excluding excise and value-added taxes, will have a P12 excise tax, while those with a net retail price tag of over P11.50 will be imposed with excise tax of P25.
It said the law will give the FDA the power to restrict advertising, stop illegal sales of tobacco products, require graphic health warnings that cover the top half of the front and back of cigarette packs, ban misleading health claims such as "light" and "low-tar, " regulate health claims, require disclosure of the contents of tobacco products, require changes in tobacco products.
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