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[Pakistan] Punjab govt bans shisha smoking

The government of Pakistan's most populous province of Punjab has imposed a ban on smoking 'shisha' in all restaurants, clubs, hotels and cafes in this eastern city for a month.
CNN-IBN (in)
added Jun 18, 2012 14:24
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[Pakistan] FBR launches crackdown against counterfeit cigarettes

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has launched countrywide crackdown against non-duty paid / counterfeit cigarettes and seized 200,000 illegal cigarettes in a single day, sources said.
The News (pk)
added Mar 3, 2013 13:34
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VIDEO: Child labour and the tobacco industry in Pakistan

This video shows children in northwest Pakistan preparing tobacco leaves to be sent for drying. Children as young as five years old also work in tobacco farming, where they are vulnerable to poisoning from pesticides and other tobacco sicknesses.
Tobacco Control Journal blogs
added Sep 3, 2012 23:33
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[Asia, Pakistan] MNCs submit new taxation structure on cigarettes

Multinational cigarette manufacturing companies on Thursday submitted new taxation structure on cigarettes to the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) without any price increase on cigarettes, which is totally against the FBR proposal to merge existing three
(Karachi, Pakistan) Business Recorder (pk)
added Apr 26, 2013 06:04
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[Pakistan] LETTER: Attractive cigarette packets

Youngsters, especially college and university students nowadays are really being attracted by colorful cigarette packs and most of them buy cigarettes only because of elegant and vibrant packets ... Our high authorities should also take some serious step
Pakistan Observer (pk)
added Mar 30, 2013 20:16
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[Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan] EDITORIAL: Cigarettes smuggling threatens local industry

two key factors explain the rising sales of smuggled cigarettes; the introduction of pictorial health warnings in Pakistan. (effective September 2010) and the ever–increasing taxes on local cigarette producers. These two preventive measures enforced to cu
Pakistan Observer (pk)
added Jan 12, 2013 11:13
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[Asia, Pakistan] 3 Sheesha smoking Centers sealed, 16 hookahs confiscated

The District Administration has launched operation against Sheesha Smoking centers and sealed three Sheesha centers and confiscated 16 hookahs respectively.
ONLINE International News Network (pk)
added Apr 12, 2013 13:57
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[Pakistan] Sheesha smoking getting increasingly common in varsities

A Pakistani research published in Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing on Sisha smoking proposed that 40 percent of Pakistani male students puff the water pipe.
Pakistan Today (pk)
added Sep 12, 2012 15:09
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[Pakistan] Recommendations of Framework Convention on Tobacco control rejected

President Sarhad Chamber of Agriculture Ahsan Ullah Khan raised his voice in favour of more than forty thousand tobacco growers against the recommendations of Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and said that officials from Switzerland were not aware
Frontier Post (pk)
added Sep 6, 2012 08:07
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[Australia] Pakistan ‘should switch over to plain cigarette packaging’

TheNetwork has joined international tobacco control activists in applauding the Australian government for standing up to the bullying of the tobacco industry and taking strong and innovative action to reduce tobacco use, the world’s number one cause of pr
The News (pk)
added Aug 20, 2012 03:03
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