Pakistan: top court’s order for health
After years of doing nothing to regulate one of the international tobacco industry’s most profitable adventure playgrounds, and only passing legislation that it seemed to have no intention of enforcing, the government of Pakistan has at last been ordered by the highest court in the land to take tobacco control, and its own laws, more seriously.
The country’s Supreme Court has the power to take up any issues it considers to be a matter of public importance, and …







