A smoker places a cigarette stub on a tray filled with stubs beside a road in Las Pinas city, Metro Manila Philippines August 7, 2015. REUTERS/Erik De Castro/File Photo
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is set to sign a regulation this month banning smoking in public across Southeast Asia's second-most populous country, rolling out among the toughest anti-tobacco laws in the region.
Public health campaigners who have long battled against the country's hefty tobacco lobby welcomed the push to end smoking in public places and said they believed Duterte, with his tough anti-vice record, was the man to do it.
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