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                    [Title] => Why go to school?   
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There's a funny statement by school dropouts that a person needs only enough education to get by in the marketplace. Exactly right. But that marketplace is the whole of life itself.

[DatePublished] => 2016-06-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804633 [AuthorName] => Rufino Rios [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => cebu-lifestyle [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1518895 [Title] => Graphic health warning law to be implemented in March [Summary] =>

The Department of Health (DOH) said yesterday that the new deadline for the graphic health warning law to take effect is on March 3, 2016, not yesterday, at which time no tobacco product packaging shall be manufactured without the graphic warning.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-05 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1518524 [Title] => Graphic tobacco health warning law enforced today [Summary] =>

Tobacco companies should comply with the law requiring graphic health warnings on cigarette packs, which will be enforced starting today, a group of cancer survivors said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-04 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20140611/smoking-cigarette.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1514916 [Title] => Cancer survivors’ group backs Miriam’s presidential bid [Summary] =>

A group of cancer survivors yesterday expressed full support for Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago’s presidential bid.

[DatePublished] => 2015-10-25 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097338 [AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1509968 [Title] => Jollibee Family Values Awards: Doing more for others who have less [Summary] =>

He was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2002.

[DatePublished] => 2015-10-12 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135124 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1447204 [AuthorName] => Lai S. Reyes [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1499922 [Title] => Cancer survivors ask government: Implement graphic health warning on cigarettes [Summary] =>

A group of cancer survivors asked the government yesterday to strictly implement Republic Act 10643 or the Graphic Health Warning (GHW) Law on tobacco products.

[DatePublished] => 2015-09-14 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1494625 [Title] => Cancer survivors seek vigilance vs tobacco industry [Summary] =>

The New Vois Association of the Philippines (NVAP), a group of survivors of laryngeal cancer, yesterday urged the public to be vigilant against increased tobacco industry interference as the 2016 elections are approaching.

[DatePublished] => 2015-08-31 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1485521 [Title] => MMDA can implement smoking ban – DOH [Summary] =>

For the Department of Health (DOH) and health advocacy groups, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has the power to ban smoking in public places as part of its mandate to enforce the law.

[DatePublished] => 2015-08-06 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1412403 [Title] => Smokers urged: Don’t light up during papal visit [Summary] =>

Smokers have been asked to avoid lighting cigarettes during public events that Pope Francis would attend.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1407457 [Title] => Probe on sin tax law violations backed [Summary] =>

Anti-tobacco groups have backed calls for an investigation into the malpractices in the implementation of the Sin Tax Law.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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