There’s always a silver lining.
“When President Noynoy Aquino’s smoking habit was brought up at a press conference sponsored by the Philippine College of Physicians, Dr. Tony Dans of UP-Philippine General Hospital (PGH) presented a different perspective on the subject,” reports ABS-CBN News correspondent Nina Corpuz.
Dans said, “When it comes to tobacco, smokers are victims. Siguro mabuti na smoker s’ya, kasi he’s a victim and he knows how hard it is to stop smoking. Sino ba ang sumulong sa sin tax bill? (It may be a good thing that he’s a smoker because he’s also a victim and he knows how hard it is to stop smoking. If you think about it, who pushed for the Sin Tax Bill to be passed?) It was pushed by a smoking president, not a non-smoking president.”
Dans is also the president of the Philippine Society of General Internal Medicine
Screengrab from an ABS-CBN News video
