THE House leadership has committed to support and adopt the Senate’s version of a bill imposing higher excise tax rates on cigarettes in a bid to accelerate congressional approval of the measure and ensure its enactment into law during the 17th Congress.

In a letter to Senate President Vicente Sotto 3rd, House Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said the House would support the Senate’s decision on the excise tax to be imposed on cigarettes to collect bigger revenues to finance the Universal Health Care (UHC) program.

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