Open Cigarette Sell to be Banned in Pakistan

The Federal Government has decided to place a ban on the sale of unpacked cigarettes. Packed cigarette cases will still available for sell.
 

According to ARY News, this ban is going to be put in place on the behalf of Ordinance of Prohibition of Smoking 2002.
 

Ministry of Health is very likely to issue a notification in this regard before the end of 2016.
 

The notification will put a ban in all the provinces on the sale or consumption of unpacked/open cigarettes.
 

However, the act might fail to provide many positive effects from the recent decision, as smokers will be allowed to smoke openly.
 

People will only be forced to buy packed cigarette cases instead of unpacked ones, and smoking is still going to be there.
 

Smoking might just be decreased from the society, but only by a mere pinch and only very temporarily as people who go for unpacked cigarettes will just switch to buying packed cases instead.
 

There's a need to educate our masses on the dangers of smoking from a very young age. Society also has to play its due role in curbing the menace of smoking and the multiple heath issues that it brings with itself, be it breathing problems or coughing to something as serious as lung cancer.
 

There's also the need for stricter enforcement of existing laws which ban smoking in public places at the provincial level.