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Pakistan observes World No Tobacco Day today
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Tobacco kills 118,000 people in Pakistan each year.
Pakistan has placed a complete ban on advertisements of tobacco and tobacco-related products.
Tobacco kills more than 8mn people around the globe each year.
Like other parts of the world, Pakistan is also marking the World No Tobacco Day in which awareness will be created among the masses about the dangers and adverse effects of tobacco on our health.
In Pakistan, 19% of the people, over the age of 15 years, use tobacco in any form, and tobacco kills 118,000 people in the country every year. It also costs the country Rs615bn per annum on smoking-related illnesses.