Tag: cigarettes
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Smoking – An Easy Way To Suicide
Cigarettes smoking is a classy way to kill yourself means to commit suicide. Smoking leaves unseen scars and fills the body with toxins and tar. Mesoamerican and South American natives discovered tobacco which then used in cigarettes, and then spread throughout Europe and the rest of the world. In the beginning tobacco smoking was just…
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FBR Conducts Crackdown Against Counterfeit & Smuggled Cigarettes
FBR has conducted a crackdown against counterfeit and smuggled cigarettes.
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Foreign-origin cigarettes smuggled in Karachi
Press Release, 21st August: The Customs Court directed investigation officer to arrest absconders accused persons and produced them before the court who are involved in a case of attempting to smuggle contraband foreign origin cigarettes and other goods into Pakistan. On 18 August 2020, an investigation officer of Anti-Smuggling Organization submitted a charge sheet and…
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Smoking hookah may increase heart attack, stroke risk
ISLAMABAD, Jan 16 (APP): Researchers have found that tobacco smoke from a hookah caused blood to function abnormally and be more likely to clot and quickly form blood clots, which can increase the risk of heart attack or stroke. The study, published in the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, found that tobacco smoke from…
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More teenagers vaping nicotine than flavours : Study
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17 (APP): Most of the teenagers who vape are using addictive or mind-altering substances than previously believed, according to new study. The data paints a different picture than previous research because of the significantly higher proportion (75 per cent) of teens who vape using nicotine, marijuana, or multiple substances and not just flavouring.…
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Final puffs for France’s last tobacco factory
SarlatlaCaneda, France, Oct 2 (AFP/APP):Gerard Chanquoi looks sadly at the conveyor belts of France’s sole remaining tobacco processing factory as they whirl for the last times ahead of its final closure, a victim of changed economic times and a different public health landscape. Anti-smoking campaigners may cheer its demise, but for its workers and local…
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Cigarette manufacturer backs FED of Rs300 per kg
KARACHI 23rd june: The imposition of Rs300-per-kilogramme levy on tobacco processing at the factory level has been welcomed by the ciggerette manufacturing companies and has asked the government not to take the tax back under the influence of illegal cigarette manufacturers. “The tax under consideration will not be charged from farmers, but from the cigarette…