Govt help sought for tobacco crop alternatives
Islamabad: Tobacco growers demanded the government to help them adopt sustainable alternatives to tobacco crop, accusing the Tobacco Board of being captured by the tobacco...
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Professional bodies pledge support for effective tobacco control
Islamabad: Islamabad & Rawalpindi Bar Associations offered extended support to The Network for Consumer Protection for furthering tobacco control movement and anticipated legal support to...
The Network flays PMI for repeated tobacco ads despite apology
by Saher Afshan
Islamabad: The Network, Pakistan’s non-governmental forum for protection of consumers’ rights, condemned the Tobacco related products’ advertisement, saying: “repeated advertisement makes the apology of tobacco...
Tobacco Control Cell seeks explanation over tobacco ads
by Saher Afshan
Islamabad: The Tobacco Control Cell has sent an explanation notice to a tobacco giant for getting published advertisements in national dailies and magazines in violation...
Tobacco industry knew about cigarettes’ cancer risk since 1959, but kept quiet
by Agencies
Washington: Tobacco companies knew that cigarette smoke contained radioactive alpha particles that could potentially cause lung cancer for more than four decades, but they deliberately...