Packaging non-compliance and percentage of illicit ST products in Bangladesh and India, and the percentage ST products with specific pack features in Pakistan
| Pack features (themes for illicit ST products) | Bangladesh | India | Pakistan | |||
| Non-compliant packs | Illicit percentage (95% CI) | Non-compliant packs | Illicit percentage (95% CI) | Packs with features | Percentage of packs with specific features (95% CI) | |
| (a) MRP not printed | 66 | 56.9 (47.4 to 66.1) | 1 | 2.4 (0.10 to 12.9) | – | – |
| (c) No sale statement disclosure | 84 | 72.4 (63.6 to 80.4) | – | – | 64 | 100 (94.4 to 100.0)* |
| (d) No PHW or inappropriate size of PHW (Bangladesh and Pakistan–below 50%, India–below 85%) | 98 | 84.4 (76.6 to 90.5) | 38 | 92.6 (80.1 to 98.5) | 64 | 100 (94.4 to 100.0)* |
| (e) No THW or inappropriate language of THW (not in principal language) | 35 | 30.1 (22.0 to 39.4) | 3 | 7.3 (1.5 to 19.9) | 63 | 98.4 (91.6 to 100.0) |
| (f) Presence of any misleading descriptors (culturally specific reference or words indicating flavour and/or strength or health claim) | 71 | 61.2 (51.7 to 70.1) | 13 | 31.7 (18.1 to 48.1) | 27 | 42.1 (29.9 to 55.2) |
| Overall estimate of non-compliant and hence illicit ST packs (in Bangladesh, % of ST packs have at least one of the attributes listed from (a) to (f); in India, % of ST packs have at least one of the attributes listed in (a), (d), (e) and (f); and in Pakistan (packs with specific features), % of ST packs have at least one of the attributes listed from (c) to (f)). | 107 | 92.2 (85.8 to 96.4) | 38 | 92.6 (80.1 to 98.5) | 64 | 100 (94.4 to 100.0)* |
*Indicates one-sided 97.5% CI. In the absence of country-specific rules in Pakistan, ST packs were not classified as illicit. We merely described the proportion of ST products under various categories.
MRP, market retail price; PHW, pictorial health warning; ST, smokeless tobacco; THW, textual health warning.