ZAMBOANGA CITY – Smuggled cigarettes valued at P1.7 million were found floating on the coastline of Barangay Kayok, Liloy, Zamboanga del Norte on Thursday, August 29. Police retrieved the contraband after receiving a report from a concerned citizen. The abandoned tobacco products were sent...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) seized approximately P500 million worth of smuggled cigarettes during a raid on warehouses in Bulacan on Thursday, Aug. 22. The Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service-Manila International Container Port (CIIS-MICP) conducted the inspection and also seized...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Smuggled cigarettes valued at P20 million were seized in Sulu on Sunday, August 18. PHILIPPINE Navy personnel intercepted smuggled cigarettes valued at P20.4 million in the sea of Sulu. (Navforwem) The BRP Laurence Narag (PG 907) under Naval Task Force 61 of the Naval...
BAGUIO CITY – More than P2-million worth of confiscated vapes and cigarettes were destroyed by the Smoke-Free Task Force here on Wednesday August 8. CONFISCATED cigarettes and vapes worth P2 million were publicly destroyed in Baguio City on August 8. (Baguio PIO photo) City Health Services Office...
Illegal cigarettes estimated at P3 million were intercepted in Kapatagan and Sultan Naga Dimaporo, Lanao del Norte. The Bureau of Customs-Port of Cagayan de Oro (BOC-CDO) on July 25 issued a warrant of seizure and detention against the 4,300 reams of undocumented cigarettes. The confiscated...
By Sonny Daanoy With upper respiratory tract infections and hypertension as leading diseases among prisoners, the Department of Health (DOH) called on Monday, July 15, for heightened enforcement of the smoking ban in jails. Photo from Pixabay "I think we should ban smoking in our jails...
The purchasing of illegal cigarettes has increasingly become a normal behavior among adult smokers in the Philippines and three other countries, according to a study by Japan Tobacco International (JTI). Based on its study titled “Fighting the Dark Underworld,” which also included France, the...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) - Port of Zamboanga destroyed over half a billion pesos worth of smuggled cigarettes at a warehouse in Zamboanga City on June 13. The BOC Port of Zamboanga is ramping up its anti-smuggling efforts in Region 9 and Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, resulting...
A tobacco company said that ratifying the anti-agricultural economic sabotage bill will minimize the losses from the government’s revenues and farmers. Japan Tobacco International (JTI) said that the increasing illicit cigarette trade in the Philippines poses a significant threat to the...
Smuggled cigarettes with a total value of P17.7 million were seized by the Bureau of Customs in the Port of Davao. During an inspection, the BOC, along with Task Force Davao, yielded 15,150 reams of cigarettes, 35 sacks of assorted shoes, and one unit of truck. The BOC-Davao is set to file the...
Some P6 billion in excise taxes from the tobacco industry have been lost so far this year due to illicit trade and shift to electric cigarettes, an official from the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) said. Venus Gaticales, BIR chief of excise large taxpayers field operations division, told reporters...
Smuggled cigarettes with a total worth of P2.3 million were intercepted in Iligan City checpoint, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) reported. The BOC said that the agents from District 10 led an operation that yielded 2,899 reams of undocumented Fort and Cannon Methol cigarettes on May 16 at a checkpoint...
