Rural Laotian women smoking

The Last Pixel Summer 2018

In Lao PDR and globally, the risks of smoking extend beyond cigarettes.

Photo by Shehzad Noorani

Rural Laotian women are more likely to smoke than their urban counterparts. They’re also the country’s predominant smokers of hand-rolled cigarettes and pipes. In Lao PDR and globally, the risks of smoking extend beyond cigarettes—a public health challenge complicated by the evolution of e-cigarettes and other technologies.