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Supply Chain Actors' Willingness to Switch the Business of Smokeless Tobacco: A Mixed-Methods Study on Naswar Business in Pakistan.

Melanie BoeckmannZohaib KhanMelanie BoeckmannMuhammad Naseem KhanKamran SiddiqiSafat UllahHajo ZeebSarah Forberger
Published in: Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (2021)
This study highlights that good profit margins in the Naswar business, lack of awareness of tobacco-related health harms, and absence of the government's support are key detriments to switching to alternative businesses among Naswar SC actors in Pakistan. These findings are the first to come out in the context of both Pakistan and Naswar product, making a case for policy interventions focusing on tax increases, awareness campaigns about tobacco-harms, and a proactive role by the government to provide support for the security of livelihoods to those tobacco SC actors who want to switch to other alternatives.
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