Islamabad: Between 2014 and 2024, male smoking in Pakistan fell from 22. 2% to 15. 8% - a 29% relative decline, a real sign that a decade of tobacco control policy is working.

Over the same period, female smoking rose from 2. 1% to 3. 3% - a 57% relative increase.

Female smoking is still a fraction of male smoking in absolute terms. But it's the only group moving in the wrong direction, even as the national trend improves - exactly the kind of pattern that gets lost in a single national average.

To track patterns like this, Gallup Pakistan Digital Analytics has just launched a new dashboard - Pakistan Tobacco Insights - now live on our website. It covers a decade of GATS and GYTS survey data: smoking rates by gender and age, secondhand smoke exposure by location, cigarette pricing trends, and public attitudes toward tobacco policy, all in one place.

Gilani Research Foundation is a not-for-profit public service project to provide social science research to students, academia, policymakers, and concerned citizens in Pakistan and across the globe.

Gilani Research Foundation is headed by Dr. Ijaz Shafi Gilani who pioneered the field of opinion polling in Pakistan and established Gallup Pakistan in 1980. Currently, Dr. Gilani, who holds a Ph. D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and has taught at leading universities in Pakistan and abroad, is Chairman of Gallup Pakistan.

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