Peshawar
June 5, 2021
PESHAWAR: A research study has concluded that in the South Asian region, cigarette prices are the cheapest in Pakistan.
The study titled “Estimating the price elasticity for cigarette and chewed tobacco in Pakistan: evidence from micro-level data,” urged the policymakers to increase tax on tobacco products to make it out of the purchasing power of the youth.
The study said that the tobacco industry in Pakistan was opposing any tax increase that could raise prices, arguing that with around 40 percent illicit trade, tobacco consumption may remain unabated, but the country would certainly lose tax revenue.
In the absence of any reliable estimates of price elasticities and illegal trade, policymakers often resort to industry data and decide tax regimes that may favour them, it said.
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The stigma of variant names
Coronavirus variants will now be referred to by letters of the Greek alphabet instead of where they were first discovered, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday, in a bid to prevent the stigmatization of entire communities.
For example, instead of the “UK variant” (B.1.1.7), the WHO will now say “Alpha;” the “South African variant” (B.1.351) is now “Beta;” and the P.1 variant, first detected in Brazil, has been labeled “Gamma,” CNN’s Jacqueline Howard reports.
Throughout history, infectious diseases have been named after geographic locations where they were thought to have originated: West Nile virus, Zika and Ebola, to mention a few. But those associations can be damaging for those places, its people and, in some cases, be inaccurate. There is no universal consensus on where Spanish flu began, for example.
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