Cigarette packs: Health warnings to be evaluated
This policy is feared to impact the livelihoods of nearly 325,000 farmers and retailers.
PESHAWAR:
Hazara Farmers Association and All Pakistan Retailer Associations thanked Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar on Monday for ordering the formation of a committee to evaluate the recent proposal by the health ministry to increase tobacco health warning coverage on cigarette packs from 40% to 85%. This policy is feared to impact the livelihoods of nearly 325,000 farmers and retailers. The decision to form a committee came in response to a plan issued last month by state health minister Saira Afzal Tarar to increase health warnings on cigarette packs.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 17th, 2015.
Hazara Farmers Association and All Pakistan Retailer Associations thanked Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar on Monday for ordering the formation of a committee to evaluate the recent proposal by the health ministry to increase tobacco health warning coverage on cigarette packs from 40% to 85%. This policy is feared to impact the livelihoods of nearly 325,000 farmers and retailers. The decision to form a committee came in response to a plan issued last month by state health minister Saira Afzal Tarar to increase health warnings on cigarette packs.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 17th, 2015.