Jump to full article: DAWN Group of Newspapers (pk), 2009-05-30
Intro: Although tobacco is injurious to health, people in the country consume tobacco and its by-products worth Rs1.2 billion annually while the government has failed to take concrete steps to protect the masses from the health hazard involved in it.
This was pointed out by health professionals belonging to various medical organisations at a press briefing held on Friday at the Karachi Press Club in connection with World No Tobacco Day, being observed on May 31.
The briefing was organised under the aegis of the National Alliance for Tobacco Control.
The speakers called for effective tobacco control to save around 100,000 lives lost every year in the country to the diseases caused by tobacco use.
Dr Nadeem Rizvi, head of the JPMC chest diseases department, said that more than 50 per cent of deaths because of lung diseases could be prevented by eradicating smoking.
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