UN-(Pakistan signs UN agreement to curb Tobacco promotion).

(From Pakistan Press International Information Services Limited)

ISLAMABAD, MAY 21 (PPI): Pakistan has singed UN's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) agreement to impose complete restriction on tobacco advertising, sponsorship and promotion. The Agreement was singed by Pakistan's foreign office representative at the UN head quarter in New York on May 18, making Pakistan 115th country to do so. According to the estimate, 1.1 billion people has addicted of the smoking in the world in which 800 million are in developing countries. In Pakistan 36% of male population are smokers in which 5.5 million smokers are classified as poor. Pakistan has already passed a …