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President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III of the Liberal Party said he would no longer debate about his smoking habit with groups seeking to make him an anti-smoking poster boy.
And he isn’t quitting either – at least not at this time.
Aquino bared that he could finish a pack a day, and the most that he did was three packs due to tension during the snap elections in 1985.
Aquino pointed out that he ran and won with the people knowing that he was a smoker. His brand is Marlboro Lights menthol.
“At the appropriate time, I will stop. So long as I am within the law and I don’t inconvenience other people, I think this is part of the little freedom left for me,” Aquino said.
Aquino said he was not ready to quit because of the pressures of the job he is about to undertake and quitting smoking would add “unnecessary pressure” on him and affect his performance.
Told that it was for his own good, Aquino said he was aware of the health risks of smoking but “there is the so-called bad stress that I might experience.”
At least he was aware of the health risks of smoking, but I think he'll resort to quit smoking if he knew how easy and fast it is as said by an expert here. A lot of debate is going on in quitting smoking in general. Especially here in the Philippines where smoking advertisements lurk in various media.
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