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[Pakistan] Hotels' owners asked to implement anti-tobacco laws

ISLAMABAD: Citizens have urged the managements of hotels, restaurants and international food chains in the federal capital to properly implement anti-tobacco laws. They said that the owners should also stop allocating designated areas in hotels and resta
Daily Times (pk)
added Jan 27, 2013 23:07
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[Pakistan] Secondhand smoke ups asthma risk

Babies exposed to cigarette smoke are at increased risk for developing childhood respiratory diseases such as asthma, according to a new study.
The News (pk)
added Jan 20, 2013 10:11
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[Pakistan] Sheesha smoking on the rise

The number of drug addicts across the country has doubled from 4 million to 9 million from 2000 to 2012 while the number of Sheesha smokers is also increasing rapidly in Lahore, said an annual report of drug addiction. The total numbers of Sheesha cafes i
Pakistan Today (pk)
added Jan 14, 2013 10:01
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[Pakistan] APWA, Pfizer organise anti-smoking play

All Pakistan Women Association (APWA) in collaboration with Pfizer organised a theater play entitled ‘Zehreela Dhuwan’ with Sheema Kirmani, featuring smoking prevention and cessation in women here at APWA Auditorium on Saturday evening.
Daily Times (pk)
added Jan 13, 2013 23:47
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[Pakistan] Leading MNC cigarette unit: alarming 64 percent decrease in declared tax in fiscal year 2011

Sources told Business Recorder on Thursday that the directorate has analysed the income tax data given by the cigarette manufacturing companies. There is a major decrease of 64 percent in declared income tax during 2010-11
(Karachi, Pakistan) Business Recorder (pk)
added Jan 12, 2013 11:36
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[Pakistan] Citizens demand implementation of tobacco control laws

Citizens on Friday stressed the need for effective implementation of the tobacco control laws across the country and for curtailing the sale of smuggled, duty-non-paid, and non-compliant tobacco products. Citizens asked the authorities concerned to make
Daily Times (pk)
added Jan 12, 2013 11:15
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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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[Pakistan] FBR launches drive against illicit tobacco, cigarette trade

The Anti-Illicit Tobacco and Cigarette Unit working under the Inland Revenue Wing of FBR has successfully launched its wide ranged operations covering almost all segments of this evasion prone sector. In addition to enforcement activities audits have als
(Karachi, Pakistan) Business Recorder (pk)
added Jan 11, 2013 15:21
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[Pakistan] Growers want tobacco board chief removed

The tobacco growers have threatened to launch an agitation if the government doesn’t remove the chairman of tobacco board in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. They also demanded of the government to increase the price of tobacco in accordance with the expenses incurre
DAWN Group of Newspapers (pk)
added Jan 8, 2013 05:00
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[Pakistan] Swabi farmers protest against tobacco company

staged a protest sit-in on Monday in front of the residence of the ex-MNA and Industrialist Haji Naseem-ur-Rehman for allegedly non-payment of the amount of their tobacco corps by his Tobacco Company for the last eight months.
Frontier Post (pk)
added Jan 8, 2013 04:55
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