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with its emphasis of looking well, eating well and being well, is all too aware of the connection between illness and disease and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.  It’s fairly well understood there is a connection between smoking and cancer; obesity and diabetes; eating the wrong foods and cardiac disease, high blood pressure and lack of exercise.  Most people make the connection between maintaining a healthy lifestyle and a healthy immune system.  Worker-related injuries and illnesses heal faster the healthier the worker is overall.

workplace injuries can be aggravated and recovery from them delayed by poor lifestyle habits.  Much in the same way a pre-existing condition such as spinal stenosis can delay and aggravate a back injury.

We’re always hearing that we learn from our past, and one thing that smokers know of the past and often wish was still true is that smoking tobacco cigarettes is still as mainstream as it used to be, and that it still had the same kind of acceptance as it did years ago. More laws began to forbid cigarette smoking in places, the arguments from doctors about the dangers of cigarette smoking became more charged, and non-smokers wanted change immediately.

Tobacco growers expressed triumph over the result of a recent world convention on tobacco control which was conducted in Uruguay and which supposedly resulted in the protection of the against too restrictive guidelines in the production of .

At the same time, the Philippine Tobacco Growers’ Association (PTGA), thanks to its president Winston Uy approved the Philippine delegation to the convention led by Trade Undersecretary Zenaida Maglaya for being able to persuade delegates from other countries not to depart from the true intensions of the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).

Other members were from the Department of Health, Department of Agriculture and the UP College of Law.