BSS, Rajshahi :
All the field level administrative officials and others concerned should discharge their duties with utmost sincerity and honesty for effective implementation of graphic health warning on all tobacco products to ensuring a sound public health.
Although it has been made mandatory to insert pictorial heath warnings on 50 percent areas of tobacco products, many of the tobacco products have no pictorial warning posing a serious threat to the public health.
Administrative high officials and development activists made this observation while addressing a divisional level workshop titled “Effective Implementation of Graphic Health Warning on all Tobacco Products in Bangladesh” at conference hall of Deputy Commissioner here today.
National Tobacco Control Cell (NTCC) and Commissioner’s Office of Rajshahi division jointly organized the workshop in association with Bangladesh Anti Tobacco Alliance, Association for Community Development and Tobacco Control and Research Cell of Dhaka International University (DIU).
More than 40 persons including all the Additional District Magistrates and Civil Surgeons from all eight districts under the division took part in the workshop.
Commissioner of Rajshahi division Nur-Ur-Rahman and its Additional Commissioner Zakir Hossain addressed the workshop as chief and special guests respectively with Khairul Alam Sheikh, Joint Secretary and Coordinator of NTCC, in the chair.
Executive Director of AID Foundation Aminul Islam Bakul, Technical Adviser of International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Syed Mahbubul Alam and Deputy Commissioner of Rajshahi SM Abdul Kader also spoke on the occasion.
NTTC Programme Manager Aminul Islam gave an overview of the Tobacco Control Law in Bangladesh in his multimedia presentation while DIU’s Assistant Professor Bazlur Rahman was the keynote presenter saying the Smoking and Tobacco Products Usage (Control) Rule 2015 that has made the use of pictorial health warning messages on packets of all tobacco products came into effect on 19 March 2016.
He also underlined the need for enforcement of the amended tobacco control law to free the public health from various non-contagious diseases caused by tobacco uses.
In his remarks, Nur-Ur-Rahman says Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has declared that the country would be freed from tobacco uses by 2040. He added that all sorts of necessary measures would be taken to make the premier’s announcement a total success in the division.
He urged the additional district magistrates to conduct mobile courts for effective implementation of graphic health warning on all tobacco products for successful implementation of the existing tobacco control law.
All the field level administrative officials and others concerned should discharge their duties with utmost sincerity and honesty for effective implementation of graphic health warning on all tobacco products to ensuring a sound public health.
Although it has been made mandatory to insert pictorial heath warnings on 50 percent areas of tobacco products, many of the tobacco products have no pictorial warning posing a serious threat to the public health.
Administrative high officials and development activists made this observation while addressing a divisional level workshop titled “Effective Implementation of Graphic Health Warning on all Tobacco Products in Bangladesh” at conference hall of Deputy Commissioner here today.
National Tobacco Control Cell (NTCC) and Commissioner’s Office of Rajshahi division jointly organized the workshop in association with Bangladesh Anti Tobacco Alliance, Association for Community Development and Tobacco Control and Research Cell of Dhaka International University (DIU).
More than 40 persons including all the Additional District Magistrates and Civil Surgeons from all eight districts under the division took part in the workshop.
Commissioner of Rajshahi division Nur-Ur-Rahman and its Additional Commissioner Zakir Hossain addressed the workshop as chief and special guests respectively with Khairul Alam Sheikh, Joint Secretary and Coordinator of NTCC, in the chair.
Executive Director of AID Foundation Aminul Islam Bakul, Technical Adviser of International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Syed Mahbubul Alam and Deputy Commissioner of Rajshahi SM Abdul Kader also spoke on the occasion.
NTTC Programme Manager Aminul Islam gave an overview of the Tobacco Control Law in Bangladesh in his multimedia presentation while DIU’s Assistant Professor Bazlur Rahman was the keynote presenter saying the Smoking and Tobacco Products Usage (Control) Rule 2015 that has made the use of pictorial health warning messages on packets of all tobacco products came into effect on 19 March 2016.
He also underlined the need for enforcement of the amended tobacco control law to free the public health from various non-contagious diseases caused by tobacco uses.
In his remarks, Nur-Ur-Rahman says Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has declared that the country would be freed from tobacco uses by 2040. He added that all sorts of necessary measures would be taken to make the premier’s announcement a total success in the division.
He urged the additional district magistrates to conduct mobile courts for effective implementation of graphic health warning on all tobacco products for successful implementation of the existing tobacco control law.
