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This section provides Pakistan’s tobacco control legal documents, including laws, rules, regulations, SROs, and related official documents. Each document page includes the original PDF and easy AI-powered explanations in English and Urdu.
This SRO bans the sale of loose or single cigarettes. It says cigarettes can only be sold, offered for sale, or distributed in a packet containing at least 20 cigarette sticks.
This SRO changes the required size of pictorial health warnings on cigarette packets and printed outers. It requires the warning to cover at least 50% of the front and back from 1 June 2018, and at least 60% of the front and back from 1 Jun...
This SRO prescribes a pictorial health warning for cigarette packets and outer packaging for one year starting from 1 June 2018. The warning message shown in the notification says that smoking causes throat cancer.
This SRO increases the size of pictorial health warnings on cigarette packets and outers to 85% of the front and 85% of the back. It also adds rules to make sure the warning is not hidden, covered, weakened by design, or reduced by promotio...
This SRO disallows tobacco and tobacco product advertisements in many public and media spaces. It restricts tobacco ads in print media, cinema, television, radio, clothing branding, posters, shop boards, and outdoor billboards.
This memo extends the use of the existing pictorial health warning on cigarette packs. It states that the current warning under S.R.O. 87(KE)/2009 will continue from 31 May 2011 to 31 December 2011.
This SRO bans tobacco companies from using free goods, cash rebates, free samples, discounts, or below-market-value goods to promote tobacco products or increase sales.
This SRO declares that all public places covered under the 2002 Ordinance and SRO 653(I)/2003 must be completely smoke-free. Its purpose is to protect non-smokers from tobacco smoke in public places.
This SRO introduced the Cigarettes (Printing of Warning) Rules, 2009. It required pictorial and text health warnings on cigarette packets and outers, covering at least 40% of the front and 40% of the back. It also introduced rotation of war...
This SRO limits the size and placement of tobacco advertisements. It restricts press ads, shop boards, billboards, electronic media timing, and prevents tobacco ads from appearing on important publication pages.
This SRO gives provincial governments the power to exercise authority under the 2002 smoking and non-smokers protection ordinance. It means provinces and their subordinate officers can help implement and enforce the ordinance.
This SRO sets rules for how health warnings must appear on cigarette and bidi packs and tobacco advertisements. It explains when the warning becomes required, where it should be printed, how much space it should cover, and what size/color f...
This SRO declares many public places as no-smoking and no-tobacco-use places. These include hospitals, schools, offices, restaurants, buses, trains, domestic flights, airport lounges, railway waiting rooms, bus stations, indoor stadiums, gy...
This SRO identifies the people and officials who are allowed to enforce the 2002 non-smokers protection ordinance. It gives enforcement authority to police officers, public officials, school heads, transport staff, hospital heads, restauran...
This SRO officially brings the 2002 smoking and non-smokers protection ordinance into force from 30 June 2003.
This SRO creates a committee to make and monitor guidelines for tobacco advertisements. The committee includes government, health, media, consumer, tobacco industry, and invited international health organization representatives.
This SRO officially notified the health warning that must appear on cigarette packets. The warning tells people that smoking causes cancer and heart diseases.
This ordinance bans smoking and tobacco use in public workplaces, public-use places, and public service vehicles. It also restricts tobacco advertising, bans sale of cigarettes to minors under 18, prohibits cigarette sale near educational i...
This SRO amends earlier rules about cigarette health warnings. It mainly changes the implementation date from 1 February to 31 May, gives a 90-day grace period for clearing old cigarette stock with previous warnings, and adjusts wording abo...
This law requires health warnings to be printed clearly on cigarette packets. It also says that cigarettes should not be sold from packets that do not carry the required warning.
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