Domestic abuse continues daily in Philippine households, alongside wife battery, maltreatment, and rape, while children face online sexual abuse and exploitation, violent discipline, incest, bullying, neglect, psychological abuse, and economic exploitation.

MANILA —New evidence from a survey of Filipino adults who smoke suggests that a 23% increase on cigarette taxes, from ₱69.46 to ₱90.00, and requiring that cigarette packs carry larger health warning labels (HWLs) are likely to motivate more people to consider quitting.

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