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"The entire Ilocos region is in crisis because of the series of anti-tobacco campaigns. It is now between life and death for 2.2 million people in the Ilocos region," said Singson, president of the Northern Luzon Alliance, a political grouping of all Ilocano congressmen.


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"The entire Ilocos region is in crisis because of the series of anti-tobacco campaigns. It is now between life and death for 2.2 million people in the Ilocos region," said Singson, president of the Northern Luzon Alliance, a political grouping of all Ilocano congressmen.


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Plight of tobacco tillers bewailed

June 13, 2003 - 12:00am

Some 2.2 million Ilocanos are on the verge of economic dislocation with the looming enactment of the Tobacco Regulation Law and the continued failure of the government to release the P4-billion tax share of the tobacco-producing...

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