INTERNATIONAL SMOKE-FREE MEET

– Around 170 foreign and local delegates from countries in the Asia Pacific Region are now in the city for the two-day 8th Asia Pacific Smoke-Free Meeting of the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) which opened today Oct. 27, 2022, at the Baguio Country Club.

Participants are mostly governors, city and municipal mayors, smoke-free focal persons, tobacco control advocates, and representatives of civil society organizations.

Mayor Benjamin Magalong and DILG Secretary Benjamin Abalos, Jr. attended the second day of the summit.

Organized by the city government, the Dept. of Health, World Health Organization in the Western Pacific Region, and the SEATCA, the regional meeting with the theme, “Rising amidst the Challenges: Strengthening and Sustaining Smoke-Free Implementation.” – APR/Neil Ongchangco Photos by Neil Clark Ongchangco