The Philippines has one of the highest youth smokers in Southeast Asia with 45.8 percent of teenagers aged 13 to 15 hooked on cigarettes, according to a study conducted by the Institute for Global Tobacco Control of John Hopkins School for Public Health.

When it comes to the number of adult smokers, the country comes second to Indonesia at 17.3 million.

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