Don’t Forget Smoking

One of the articles posted in the Inquirer Politics website on October 1, 2009 written by the Cebu Daily News is entitled Make Smoking an Election Issue. This article informs that a Department of Health official said that smoking should be one of the issues that should be tackled in the 2010 Election. This is because smoking has been a one of the prevalent causes of illness and death in the country. Dr. Paulyn Jean Ubial, health assistant secretary implied in her statements that health should be one of the priorities of our leaders. This assertion of the DOH is only one of the calling to the 2010 candidates that they should dwell on issues that affect on Filipinos rather than destroying each other’s reputation and spending too much money for their materialistic campaign. Aside from health, other issues that I know Filipinos would love to hear discussed by the candidates are poverty, debts of the country, imperialism, terrorism, peace and order, security, climate change, and sustainable development among others. It would be also better that these issues are specific to know how aware and educated the candidates are. Aside from the discussion of the candidates, voters should not be carried away by the rhetoric speeches of the politicians. Instead, they should focus on sound and reasonable statements that are seldom to a candidate.