Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah urged citizens to stay away from tobacco and help build a healthier society. In his message on On World No Tobacco Day, he said “Tobacco is a silent killer. Murad said that the protection of our youth from tobacco use is a shared responsibility of government, parents, teachers, […]
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President Zardari stresses collective duty against tobacco risks
President Asif Ali Zardari stressed that it was their shared responsibility to protect current and future generations from the harms of tobacco products. “The time has come that, besides other issues, our national parliament and provincial legislatures make laws and create effective enforcement mechanisms to protect our people and future generations and effectively resist the […]
FBR to monitor cigarette production digitally to curb tax evasion
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has introduced a new initiative to digitally monitor the entire tobacco-to-cigarette value chain in an effort to curb widespread tax evasion in the sector. The tax authority has directed all cigarette factories and green leaf threshing stations to install IP-based CCTV cameras at designated points to track production […]
Health activists hails hike in FED on cigarettes
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, […]
Record inflation squeezes Turkish tobacco workers
Mehmet Emin Calkan begins work harvesting a tobacco field in rural Turkey before dawn, then has another shift skewering and stringing the tobacco to dry under the sun. The 19-year-old, who hopes to study electronic engineering, has undertaken the strenuous work to help support his family and pay for books he needs to prepare for […]
UET, Pakistan Tobacco Board ink MoU
University of Engineering Technology (UET) Peshawar and Pakistan Tobacco Board (PTB) and National Centre for Big Data and Cloud Computing (NCBC) have entered into a collaboration, where they will work together on “Detection and Estimation of tobacco crop through Geographic Image Analysis” for the period of 2022-2023.Chief Statistical Officer PTB, Dr Waqas Gilani and […]
Farmers continue protest to demand a fair tobacco price
While the Tobacco Growers Alliance Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been protesting in Swabi for the last five days, they have requested that their tobacco crop be procured on schedule and at the current market pricing. Tobacco Growers Alliance of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Tobacco Growers have been protesting in different areas of Swabi for the last five days […]
Donating death – an open letter to the Prime Minister of Pakistan
Dear Prime Minister Thank you for your leadership in these trying times. Thank you for your efforts to make Naya Pakistan and taking the country to the next level in the comity of nations. Your efforts to make the governance inclusive and participatory are certainly laudable. This provides a chance for the common citizen to […]
Smoking pot vs tobacco: What science says about lighting up
As more states make it legal to smoke marijuana, some government officials, researchers and others worry what that might mean for one of the country’s biggest public health successes : curbing cigarette smoking. Though there are notable differences in health research findings on tobacco and marijuana, the juxtaposition strikes some as jarring after generations of […]