ISLAMABAD: Health activists have expressed satisfaction on government’s decision to double the Federal Excise Duty (FED) on cigarettes. Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) says the decision will go a long way in solving Pakistan’s financial woes and recommended government to remain steadfast against tobacco industry’s misinformation campaign. Malik Imran, […]
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Philip Morris to phase out cigarettes in Japan within decade
Tokyo: The head of tobacco giant Philip Morris said the company will phase out conventional cigarettes in Japan within 10 years, in an interview with the Nikkei business daily published on Friday. The Marlboro maker announced in 2016 a long-term goal to stop selling cigarettes and replace them with alternatives that it says are less harmful, […]
Govt to impose sin tax on tobacco products
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for National health Services Aamer Mehmood Khan on Tuesday said that government will impose a sin tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products. The federal minister while addressing the Annual Public Health Conference said “We are sending a sin tax bill in the National Assembly to impose taxes on cigarettes and tobacco […]
Pakistan toned-down cigarette warnings after Philip Morris, BAT lobbying: report
Philip Morris International Inc and British American Tobacco Plc lobbied Pakistan’s government to tone down health warnings on cigarette packs, Reuters reported saying that the industry-wide campaign has persuaded the govt to do as requested. According to the news agency, PM.N sent official letters to the government of Pakistan and also held meetings with the […]
Pakistani women and cigarettes
Growing up in a conservative, middle-class family taught me a lot of things – the most important one being survival. With high aims and goals set right up at sky-level, I learnt to side-step scandal as soon as I entered my teens. Incredibly sensitised to the idea of what my ‘image’ should be like, even […]