Legal cigarette imports are negligible. During the early 1990s, when foreign imports were illegal, a wide selection of foreign brands were reportedly sold openly. There are many small organizations producing tobacco products on a very small scale. Therefore, it is likely that more tobacco is used for smoking in bidis and the hookah as well as for chewing and snuffing than is smoked as cigarettes. Prevalence Studies in Karachi found that tobacco is smoked as cigarettes, in bidis and in the hookah, chewed in a variety of forms and snuffed.
Many people practice mixed habits.
Among women, pan and tobacco chewing were the main habits. The same warning must appear on all advertisements in the press and on television. There are no stipulations on tar and nicotine yields of cigarettes. Television advertising of tobacco products is prohibited before 10 p.m. and must not exaggerate the pleasures of smoking. Other forms of smoking are not taxed.