Tobacco Use in Pakistan

This policy brief is based on a report by the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), Economics of Tobacco Taxation and Consumption in Pakistan, and provides some preliminary indicators of household level tobacco prevalence and budgetary allocations across different regions, provinces and income groups in Pakistan. It is based on a descriptive analysis of the Household Integrated Income and Consumption Survey (HIICS) produced in 2015-2016 by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.

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January 2019

Location(s): Asia, Pakistan

Project: Think Tanks Project: Accelerating Progress on Tobacco Taxes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Content Type: Policy Brief

Topic(s): Economic consequences, Healthcare costs, Prevalence and consumption, Tobacco use

Authors(s): Durre Nayab, Ph.D., Muhammad Nasir, Junaid Alam Memon, Mahmood Khalid, PhD, Anwar Hussain

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