Health authorities declared that many groups of people have showed their support for the Department of Health's (DOH) move to put pictorial warnings on cigarettes packages.

For example, the Ateneo School of Government expressed its support for Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral's act of Administrative Order 2010-0013, which imposes Tobacco Industries to put a graphic warning on the negative effects of smoking products smoking on the packs of their cigs.

"The Ateneo School of Government is for managerial legislations that would require more graphic information like health warnings on cigarette packs," Dean Tony La Vina declared.

Health officials declared that such a regulation is urgent and very important, because it can save lives and for a cleaner air in environments.

Recently legal scientists from the University of the Philippines also called on the country's new leaders to enforce specific limitations that would require the placing of picture-based information on packs.

The department declared that international legislation and constitutional bill experts have manifested their approbation of the administrative measure that maintained the constitutional right to health and assures pliability with the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) to which the Philippines is a signatory.

"The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control devotes Article 18 to the protection of the indoor places and the health of inhabitants especially non-smokers," argued La Vina, also an expert on environmental policy.

The FCTC is the first public health contract negotiated under the protections of the World Health Organization. It seeks to protect the present and future generations from the devastating health, social, environmental and economic results of tobacco consumption and exposure to cigarettes smoke.

Article 11 of the FCTC states the parties that signed the treaty should assure that the public is sufficiently informed about the harmful effects of tobacco smoking and must ban frauds by removing misleading information on tobacco product packs.