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Reader views and public perspectives on smoking, quitting, tobacco policy and building a smoke-free future.

Illustration of a government building, tobacco leaf and hospital representing tobacco investment and public health policy

THE recent announcement by the Finance Ministry about the government’s ‘consultative meeting’ with an international tobacco manufacturer is deeply disturbing. What kind of ‘economic cooperation’ can there be with an industry that kills 180,000 Pakistanis every year? Tobacco money is tainted with the blood of those who die of lung cancer…

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