Faced with dwindling tax revenue amid rising spending requirements, finance minister Enoch Godongwana has hit drinkers hard in the pocket, raising sin taxes by up to 7%.
A total of 183 governments are scheduled to meet in Panama City, Panama from 5-10 February 2024 for the tenth session of the Conference of Parties (COP) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). The WHO FCTC protects the fundamental right of all people to enjoy the highest standard of health. The Philippines is a Party to this treaty, and at the COP10, fierce debates are expected around electronic smoking devices (ESDs); harmful tobacco products that the tobacco industry is aggressively marketing to the youth.
very left-coded, yes. there s a certain kind of specific visual grammar and sort of language sin tax and cadence to fascism or to broadly author yarn movements of sort of popular leadership cults. and there s a picture that you have in the book of huey long s big portrait over a rally and you see it immediately and you re like oh, i know exactly what this is. like there s the big picture of the guy over it. and i feel that way about to bring it back to the con temp i feel that way about the use of the word vermin. by trump s debate. like trump this weekend in a speech to describe his political domestic enemies. there s something in the same way of that like when you see that photo you re like, i know what i m looking at. it s like when i hear a populist leader describe the other people in the political spectrum as vermin who have infested the nation. like i just know what that is.
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