煙草在線據《卡里時報》報道編譯　　巴基斯坦仍然是世界上最大的吸煙國家之一，盡管巴基斯坦政府開展了反吸煙活動，但巴基斯坦人在2011財年用于吸煙的資金大約達到了2000億盧比（22.5億美元）。

　　巴基斯坦國家銀行在最近的報告中提供的卷煙產量數據還顯示，2011年生產的卷煙數量增長超過了上一財年的銷量與產量。

　　官方的數據沒有顯示出完整的生產數據，因為巴基斯坦全國有大量的未注冊煙廠在生產便宜卷煙，以迎合買不起品牌卷煙或進口卷煙的低收入吸煙人群的需求。

　　與當地生產的卷煙相比，進口品牌卷煙的價格高出100%至200%，而且這些卷煙大多是生活在卡拉奇、拉合爾和伊斯蘭堡這樣的大城市的富裕人群所消費。

　　據巴基斯坦中央銀行說，從2011年1月至10月，巴基斯坦生產卷煙544億支，而在2010至2011財年，巴基斯坦生產的卷煙為654億支。

Rs200 billion go up in smoke in 2011

Khaleej Times
Jan 7, 2012

　　Pakistan remains one of the world's leading cigarette smoking country and Pakistanis spent around Rs200 billion ($2.25 billion) on smoking in fiscal 2011 despite anti-smoking campaign by the government.

　　The cigarette production figures provided by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) in its latest report also showed the number of cigarettes produced in 2011 increased over the sales and production of last fiscal year.

　　Although the official figures do not show complete production figures because a large number of unregistered factories across the country were manufacturing cheaper cigarettes to cater to the need of low-income group smokers who can't afford branded or imported cigarettes.

　　Imported branded cigarette prices are higher by 100 to 200 per cent as compared to locally-made ones and are mostly consumed by affluent people living in big cities like Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad.

　　According to the central bank 54.4 billion cigarettes were produced from January to October 2011, while the number was 65.40 billion during the 2010-11 financial year.