DAVAO CITY – Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said the P3.2 million collected from violators of the Expanded Anti-Smoking Ordinance or Ordinance No 0367-12 here will be used to support the cancer patients.
Duterte announced during his weekly program on Sunday that a total of 4,613 violators were apprehended for smoking in public last year.
The expanded anti-smoking law of 2012 repealed Ordinance No. 043-02 or The Comprehensive Anti-Smoking Ordinance of Davao City, approved in 2002, that prohibited smoking in public places, enclosed spaces, buildings and establishments, public motor vehicles and in government facilities.
The new law bans smoking in all establishments, and smoking areas will be limited to outdoors with the corresponding sign to alert the public. Smoking areas in buildings are also prohibited.
Violators are fined 1,000 for the first offense, 2,500 for second offense and 5,000 for third and subsequent infractions.
