Past Winners

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Exposed!
We congratulate Alyssa from the Municipality of Orion for this winning TFG Philippines 2023 video. It's intense pace and dramatic music convey the precise urgency of this global pandemic that has prevailed more than 5 decades. It is a wake-up call for the global society to take action than to think that the vaping and smoking pandemic as mission impossible. We thank Alyssa for helping the young ones to recognize that the real culprit to the vaping and smoking problems are not our unfortunate, addicted friends and loved ones but they are mere victims of the predatory tobacco industry. Weak public health policies/education have also failed to protect earlier generations when they were in their vulnerable and experimental, teenage phase of their lives. TFG is the now the best endgame approach with cities across the world adopting the TFG law. We recall that the City of Balanga in the Bataan Province, Philippines made the world's first TFG law in 2017. This video inspires the future generations to embrace TFG as protective. Her closing is searching, energetic and determined."

How TFG rationale is better than the current, globally accepted Minimum Legal Age Law?
This 2023 video won the second prize with its clear narration on how Tobacco-Free Generation is better in overcoming the flaws of the current minimum legal age (MLA) law. The negative forbidden fruit effect of the MLA law is nicely depicted with the Garden of Eden narrative and is well contextualised to the Philippines, given her majority, Catholic faith. We congratulate the winners too for reminding others that vaping is just as harmful and it’s also marketed by the tobacco industry. It sets the scene for the 2024 entries, not just merely to carry the some of these messages, but to greater and deeper meaning to the audience of your community to garner their support for TFG

Crime of the Century
This informative video is presented in an engaging and positive manner through the youths’ fresh outlooks on TFG and its movement across Dinalupihan and Bataan. We love their independent and strong articulation against the tobacco industry. We also appreciate the English subtitles for wider international engagement.

Explore TFG Dinalupihan’s Facebook page to learn about what this community, led by TFG President Russel and Ma'am Tina Matawaran, is doing in their municipality to advocate for TFG.

Note from Competition Directors: At 3min 26s time mark, it is said TFG involves the “prohibition of sales, distribution, usage and advertising”. While this is a common measure, it is not specific to TFG. We are looking for winning teams who can convince the world that TFG’s birth-year based approach carries better advantages than current tobacco control policies.

16 bullets Phaa!
A heart-warming demonstration of not blaming smoking parents. Through brilliant storyboarding, great humour and local contextualisation, this video not only invites smoking parents to support TFG, but also encourages them to spontaneously stop smoking themselves. Many parents do listen better to their children who they love. This is a winning video from a youth group in South Africa called Rising Stars Generation promoting TFG after our training and is led by Mr Prince Motlou.

Sabi ni Lolo
This video has excellent cinematography and storytelling, where the audience is able to appreciate the familiar local scenes and learn about TFG at the same time. The script is very clear, with impactful phrases that are easy to understand. We thank John Alfred for adding in the definition of tobacco endgame at the 3 minute mark as all measures to stop vaping and smoking must be able to change the structural, political and social factors. Additionally, John’s sincerity and determination to champion for TFG came across strongly leading us to choose this work as a winner.

We hope the 2023 participants will be able to hone deeper into the details of TFG. Some phrases can be taken from our website here