Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has signed an executive order that will impose a wide-ranging ban on smoking in public, reinforcing some of the toughest anti-tobacco measures in Asia.
Smoking will be banned in many public places, while selling tobacco within 100m of schools and other areas where children gather could attract jail terms, according to the order published late on Thursday.
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