Highlighting how successive governments ignored the gravity of growing tobacco use, Sadia Shakeel of Sparc said that big tobacco industry caused a whopping Rs153 billion loss to the national exchequer between 2016 and 2019 by being awarded low tax rate and through price adjustments of their most sold brands
The over 400 percent increase to the beer tax is likely to be very hard on local breweries, which are already struggling due to the pandemic and would have to pass the tax on consumers
Archived from the original on August 10, 2019
Quitting Smoking: You Dont Have to Go It Alone Quitting smoking is difficult for many reasons, and if you find it hard to kick the habit on your own, youre not alone
Inside, cutting a swathe through the thick sweet cloud to reach a table, the scent is not of the acrid tobacco shavings smoked by sailors, stokers and stevedores but of the honeyed, clove-infused, golden hued stuff of the officers' mess