For sure, many readers will once again react with disgust to Rigoberto Tiglao's recent column, "Is Aquino breaking anti-smoking laws daily?" Indeed, that may just be one tiny bead in the litany of this columnist's never-ending tirades against the present government. But let us please get real, at least for once, in this respect. Doesn't the question so simply emanate from a matter of plain common sense as to deserve an equally commonsensical answer?
I mean, given the existing Memorandum Circular No. 17, Series of 2009, which calls for a 100% smoke-free policy, practically a smoking prohibition that covers all government premises, buildings and grounds inside the Palace, where or how else, for heaven's sake, may the President, so hooked to the smoking vice as he himself admits it, afford to make even a short or passing puff while discharging his daily tasks? Methinks this is a question the presidential spokesperson should be able to objectively deal with in one of his daily encounters with the press -- without ifs, ands or buts -- at the very least, for the sake of the Freedom of Information Bill that is now being debated in Congress.
Of course, there may yet be nothing so grievously wrong with the President eventually saying: "mag-Presidente muna kayo!" After all, hasn't someone else said that before and apparently succeeded in stopping people from questioning his presidential prerogatives?
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