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'100,000 deaths occur from tobacco use every year in Pakistan' [1]

Pakistan should implement already existing anti-tobacco laws to protect people from the tobacco epidemic, especially as the country has signed the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control - requiring signatories to post "health warnings describing the harmful effects of tobacco use" on cigarette packets and recommending that pictures form part of the warnings.

Publication Date: 
29/05/2009
Business Recorder (Pakistan) [2]
Tags:
Tobacco [3], Health Effects [4], Cancer [5], Health [6], Epidemics [7], Smoking [8], WHO [9], Pakistan [10]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/business-recorder-pakistan
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tobacco
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-effects
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cancer
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/epidemics
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/smoking
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/who
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pakistan