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Yosi ba kamo?

My mother has a policy not to stop selling cigarette. All things told, big groceries cannot also say no due to consumer demands. Philippines are topping rankings about smoking not just about corruption. But I continue to fight as my faith points the way. We put the per stick cigarette out of anybody’s sight, sell only 4 brands per stick, and forefront other goods while cigarette packs sits on the back. I would like to rip also the cigarette ads posted on our wall. Kudos to Ruffy Biazon with his RA 9211 (Tobacco Regulation Act). You have my vote. But to tax smokers and manufacturers to put up smoker’s clinic all throughout the archipelago is I think the best. For many reasons we can think of, it is the unaccepted responsibility of the smokers to heal themselves and kick the nicotine addiction. I've told them and provided them pamphlets before about how to kick the vice, and they are positive, only to admit that all throughout the Philippines it is still available at ever

Ang Piso Bow!

There is a certain shortage of peso coins. At least it’s happening in our store. The recent selling schemes of the nickel peso coin cannot but put some hunch that these sellers can be operating in our province. When told that peso coins were already all taken out from the jueteng collectors, Sunday collections were also no more, that day when at least 2 to 3 store owners came to me looking for peso coins, one would not feel different with their sentiments of who will provide us peso coins. Sari-sari stores aren’t bank connected unlike for example big grocery stores that get freshly made coins of all denominations. There is also at this time, by all reasons, a coincidence of prices marked up PhP6, 16, 21, 26… not to mention that a two PhP8 purchase sums at PhP16 too, that in each individual transactions, four peso coins will have to leave the already drought cash purse. While one cannot tell if the peso coins are mostly inside a piggy bank or just by sheer unconcern buyers jus