Economic burden of tobacco disease, death tops Rs615bln
Business
April 25, 2021
LAHORE: Pakistan, with 24 million active tobacco users, is among world’s top tobacco-consuming nations and the economic burden of related diseases is relatively huge here, findings of a study showed on Monday.
The study titled “The Economic Cost Of Tobacco-Induced Diseases in Pakistan” was released in April 2021 by the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) with the financial support of the University of Illinois Chicago’s (UIC) Institute for Health Research and Policy.
According to a survey tobacco industry pays taxes in billions, which helps it exert influence on government policies especially those related to taxation.