Pakistan is not alone in fighting this disease. The drug abuse has spread globally and the situation has gone from bad to worse, so much so that the United Nations Commission on narcotic drugs no longer discusses individual situations. The solution does not lie in the hands of individual countries. It has to be worked out through mutual efforts by South Asian countries.
Tobacco smoking is today by far the most popular form of smoking and is practiced by over one billion people in the majority of all human societies.