Some tobacco growers in Pakistan are claiming that tobacco manufacturers are exploiting them, and they have vowed to fight back.Read More
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It must be difficult to devise rational, cigarette-trade policies when one group puts the illegal trade at more than 40 percent of the market and another group puts it at under nine percent.Read More
Tobacco growers in Pakistan are threatening to start a campaign of agitation unless the government changes its stance on tobacco imposts.Read More
Pakistan is increasing the size of its cigarette-pack graphic warnings in two phases, one year apart.Read More
One way to reduce the illegal trade in tobacco products is to cut the taxes imposed on them, but it is a strategy open to challenge.Read More
Employees of two tobacco companies in Pakistan have reportedly been sacked for trying to form unions to stand up for their employment rights.Read More
The government of Pakistan’s decision to lower cigarette taxes so that licit cigarettes can better compete price-wise with illicit cigarettes has come under fire.Read More
Anti-tobacco campaigners in Pakistan are urging the government to enforce regulations requiring huge graphic health warnings to be included on cigarette packs.Read More
The Pakistan Tobacco Company has announced its results for the quarter ended March 31, 2013, recording stellar earnings of Rs1.09 billion as compared to only Rs359 million earned in the same period of the preceding year (translating Read More
Pakistan is losing 17 billion Pakistani rupees ($175.8 million) per annum due to the illicit cigarette trade, which represents about 26.7 percent of total cigarettes consumed in terms of volume. According to a research paper compiled by the Read More