{"id":64760,"date":"2024-06-07T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/article\/2024\/jun\/07\/bat-subsidiary-lobbies-pakistan-to-allow-export-of-cigarettes-to-sudan"},"modified":"2024-06-07T15:00:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T06:00:41","slug":"bat-subsidiary-lobbies-pakistan-to-allow-export-of-cigarettes-to-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64760","title":{"rendered":"BAT subsidiary lobbies Pakistan to allow export of cigarettes to Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: critics say British American Tobacco\u2019s plan to \u2018flood a country in crisis with cheap cigarettes\u2019 is \u2018shameful\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A subsidiary of British American Tobacco is lobbying the government of Pakistan to allow it to export 10-packs of cigarettes to war-torn Sudan, prompting criticism from a smoking campaign group.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan is among more than 80 countries that do not permit the sale or manufacture of 10-packs of cigarettes, which the World Health Organization has said make smoking more affordable for children.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/article\/2024\/jun\/07\/bat-subsidiary-lobbies-pakistan-to-allow-export-of-cigarettes-to-sudan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: critics say British American Tobacco\u2019s plan to \u2018flood a country in crisis with cheap cigarettes\u2019 is \u2018shameful\u2019A subsidiary of British American Tobacco is lobbying the government of Pakistan to allow it to export 10-packs of cigarettes to war&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,2905,6,212,60,771,61,404,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-british-american-tobacco","category-business","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-pakistan","category-smoking","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sudan","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64761,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64760\/revisions\/64761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}