Illegal Foreign Smoking Products

The supply of expensive smuggled cigarette brands is likely to dry up for upper echelons of the federal capital, including foreigners and bureaucrats, after the Federal Bureau of Revenue (FBR) moved to check the influx of non-duty paid cigarettes. The Inland Revenue’s Directorate-General of Intelligence and Investigation is learned to have formed a number of mobile teams to survey all markets of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Sources said that Islamabad was the hub of policymakers, but the consumption of expensive cigarette brands had become a status symbol for the federal capital’s elite. After the scope of an earlier exercise to check the availability of non-duty paid cigarettes limited to local cigarette manufacturers was broadened to include smuggled foreign cigarettes, the Inland Revenue’s directorate of intelligence would be keeping a close watch over the consumption and the quantity of such cigarettes.

Smoke-Free Haddad Park

Parks and Recreation Committee advanced a measure that would ban smoking at Haddad Riverfront Park during public events. Committee members unanimously approved the resolution and forwarded it to the full City Council with a recommendation it be approved. Committee members also struck a section from the ordinance that would have allowed the host of an event to create special smoking sections within the park. The ban would prohibit smoking from the northern shore of the Kanawha River, through the seating and to the edge of the sidewalk along the southern side of Kanawha Boulevard. The non-smoking area also would include the park from Capitol Street to the Court Street overlook and pavilion. The resolution prohibits the smoking of a pipe, cigar, or cigarette "of any kind containing any tobacco product or any kind of weed or plant." Parks and Recreation Chairwoman Susie Salisbury, a Charleston councilwoman from Fort Hill, said the smoking ban also would apply to performers and stagehands. People leaving boats also would not be allowed to smoke. "Someone stepping off their boat onto the dock can't have a cigarette in their hand," she said.

Philip Morris Tobacco Business, Pakistan Cigarettes Market

Philip Morris Pakistan Limited is a public listed company on the Karachi and Lahore Stock Exchanges and is an affiliate of Philip Morris International Inc (PMI). Amongst the two multinational tobacco companies in Pakistan, Philip Morris Pakistan Limited (formerly known as Lakson Tobacco) stands at number two to Pakistan Tobacco Company. The tobacco company is involved in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes for the domestic market. It currently operates three cigarette factories with primary and secondary facilities and one tobacco leaf threshing plant, all located in various parts of the country.It also runs an extensive tobacco leaf agronomy programme in the tobacco growing areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Tobacco Use on Campus Examined

St. Olaf may be a dry campus, but it is certainly not to- bacco-free. It is not uncommon to walk out of Buntrock Commons and bump into several students smoking on sur- rounding benches or just outside of the doors. This occurs outside of the entrance to dorms as well, and the phenom- enon is not limited to cigarettes. Students also use pipes, hookahs and cigars. The fact that some students on campus smoke does not mean that St. Olaf is experiencing a tobacco-addiction epi- demic. However, the amount of tobacco use on campus gave students Miriam Brown ’12 and Juliette Gibes ’14 enough cause to present a documentary entitled “Tobacco: The Un- filtered Truth” in Viking Theater on Tuesday, March 27. By doing so, they sought to educate students about the hard- ships of tobacco addiction and quitting.