Jan 24, Kathmandu- A study has shown that 93 percent of Pakistani are in favor of banning the sale of cigarettes. A recent survey of national representatives of adult men and women across the country showed that 93 percent of Pakistani people agreed to ban the sale of cigarettes.

Seven percent of the participants in the Gallup and Gilani survey answered that the sale of cigarettes should not be banned. According to the report, more than three percent of urban areas are in favor of banning the sale of cigarettes. The highest percentage of people who have banned the sale of cigarettes is from the country's eastern Punjab and southern Sindh provinces.

93 percent of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa also answered that the sale of cigarettes should be banned. Eighty-seven percent of people in the southwestern province of Balochistan also said that the sale of cigarettes should be banned.