Mayors ordered to push smoking ban

COTABATO CITY: Maguindanao Gov. Esmael Mangudadatu ordered mayors in the province’s 36 towns to implement the presidential executive order banning smokers in designated smoke-free areas.

The governor, on Thursday, issued an executive order directing “municipal chief executives to implement the President’s Executive Order No. 26 providing for the establishment of smoke-free environments in public and enclosed places.”