Pakistan is a high tobacco-burden country where more than 29 million adults currently use tobacco in any form. Estimates based on Pakistan’s Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES) 2018–19 indicate that tobacco is consumed in more than 45 per cent of the households in the country—the ratio is 49 per cent and 38 per cent in poor and rich households, respectively.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/magazine/money-matters/838941-hostage-to-smoking
