{"id":10734,"date":"2024-11-15T14:06:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T09:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=10734"},"modified":"2024-11-15T14:10:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T09:10:09","slug":"58-illegal-sale-of-cigarettes-revealed-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=10734","title":{"rendered":"58% of Cigarettes Sold in Pakistan Found to Be Illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Islamabad: 58% of cigarettes are being sold illegally in Pakistan, the Institute of Public Opinion Research has released a research report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This has been revealed in the research report of the Institute of Public Opinion Research, the report states that only 19 out of 264 cigarette brands have a track trace stamp, and 245 cigarette brands do not have a track and trace stamp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">About 58% of the total cigarettes consumed in Pakistan are sold illegally, with locally produced cigarettes accounting for 65% of the market share.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The report further stated that illegally smuggled cigarettes have a market share of 35 percent, with a pack of cigarettes being sold for as little as Rs 80 in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Institute of Public Opinion report said that 197 cigarette brands are being sold below the government&#8217;s minimum price, while 166 brands of smuggled cigarettes are being sold in the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: 58% of cigarettes are being sold illegally in Pakistan, the Institute of Public Opinion Research has released a research report. This has been revealed in the research report of the Institute of Public Opinion Research, the report states that only 19 out of 264 cigarette brands have a track trace stamp, and 245 cigarette [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"home-loop","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"bottom","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"no-crop","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-715"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[2103,4268,62,2663],"class_list":["post-10734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-cigarettes","tag-illegal","tag-pakistan","tag-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}