Tobacco industry in Pakistan

Tobacco occupies an uneasy place in Pakistan's political economy: it is a cash crop for some 75,000 farming households concentrated in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the raw material for a multibillion-rupee cigarette industry dominated by two multinationals, and simultaneously the focus of intensifying public-health regulation. Together, leaf growing, primary processing and cigarette manufacturing contribute less than 1 percent to GDP, yet the Federal Board of Revenue routinely counts on cigarettes for 10–12 percent of excise receipts, revenue that has shaped policy just as surely as WHO advice and civil-society pressure.

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Tobacco industry in Pakistan

Tobacco occupies an uneasy place in Pakistan's political economy: it is a cash crop for some 75,000 farming households concentrated in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the raw material for a multibillion-rupee cigarette industry dominated by two multinationals, and simultaneously the focus of intensifying public-health regulation. Together, leaf growing, primary processing and cigarette manufacturing contribute less than 1 percent to GDP, yet the Federal Board of Revenue routinely counts on cigarettes for 10–12 percent of excise receipts, revenue that has shaped policy just as surely as WHO advice and civil-society pressure.

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