WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control defines;
“Illicit Trade” means any practice or conduct prohibited by law and which relates to production, shipment, receipt, possession, distribution, sale or purchase including any practice or conduct intended to facilitate such activity;
“Tobacco Advertising, Promotion & Sponsorship (TAPS)” means any form of commercial communication, recommendation or action with the aim, effect or likely effect of promoting a tobacco product or tobacco use either directly or indirectly;
“Tobacco Control” means a range of supply, demand and harm reduction strategies that aim to improve the health of a population by eliminating or reducing their consumption of tobacco products and exposure to tobacco smoke;
“Tobacco Industry” means tobacco manufacturers, wholesale distributors and importers of tobacco products;
“Tobacco Products” means products entirely or partly made of the leaf tobacco as raw material which are manufactured to be used for smoking, sucking, chewing or snuffing;
Prohibition of Smoking and Protection Ordinance 2002 defines;
"Advertisement" means and includes any notice, circular, wall paper, pamphlet, display on any board or hoarding, through internet, or any visible representation made by any form of media whether mechanical, electronic, audio, visual or any other technological means of any light, sound, smoke, gas, writing instruments, stickers, symbol, color, logo, trademarks, display on articles like T-shirts, shoes, sportswear, sports gears, caps, carry bags, telephone booths or by any other mean, direct or indirect, which have the effect of promoting smoking and other tobacco use and the expression "advertise" shall be construed accordingly;
"Place Of Public Work Or Use" means any place declared as such under section 3 and includes auditoriums, buildings, health institutions, amusement centers, restaurants, public offices, court buildings, cinema halls, conference or seminar halls, eating houses, hotel lounges, other waiting lounges libraries, bus stations or stands, sports stadiums, educational institutions, libraries and the like which are visited by general public but does not include any open place;
"Promotion" includes sponsorship, sampling, display and uses of tobacco brand names, logos and colors on non-tobacco merchandise which has the effect of promoting smoking and other tobacco use;
"Public Service Vehicle" means a vehicle as defined in the Provincial Motor Vehicles Ordinance, 1965 (W.P. Ordinance XIX of 1965), and includes railway train and aeroplanes.
The Punjab Tobacco Vend Act 1958 defines;
"Smoking" means smoking of tobacco in any form whether in the form of cigarettes, cigar or otherwise with the aid of a pipe, wrapper or any other instrument.
“Dealer’s License” means a license authorizing a person to whom it is granted to sell or keep for sale by retail manufactured tobacco;
“Manufactured Tobacco” means tobacco in any shape or form intended for the purpose of smoking, chewing or for use as snuff, or any preparation or admixture of tobacco intended for the said purpose or use, and includes bidis, cigarettes or cigars;
“Tobacco” includes the leaves, stalks and stem of the tobacco plant (inicotiana rustica and nicotiana tobacum)