BSS, Rangpur :
Speakers at an advocacy meeting have stressed ensuring strict implementation of the Smoking and Tobacco Products Usage (Control) Act and amended the Tobacco Control Act (TCA) for a greater national interest.
They especially advocated for ensuring smoking-free public places and transports, stopping advertisements for tobacco products and sale of tobacco products among the under-aged and adolescents and using them in marketing of tobacco products.
Association for Community Development (ACD) organised the advocacy meeting at its Rangpur Area Office to create awareness among the tobacco products sellers and marketers about these acts on Wednesday afternoon.
Additional Deputy Commissioner (Education & ICT) Dr ATM Mahbubul-Ul-Karim attended the meeting as the chief guest with project coordinator of ACD Ehsanul Amin Emon in the chair.
Focal person of Anti Tobacco Media Alliance (ATMA) Shushanto Bhowmick, its member Ahsan Habib Rabu, community mobilisers of ACD Rezaul Islam and Taufiqul Islam addressed.
Retailers and small-scale sellers, suppliers and marketers and dealers of tobacco products, leaders of tobacco product sellers’ associations and local journalists attended the meeting moderated by programme officer of ACD Asim Kumar.
Ehsanul Amin Emon narrated different aspects and violation of the amended TCA, necessity of strict implementation of the Smoking and Tobacco Products Usage (Control) Act and health hazards of smoking in public places.
He said Bangladesh is one of the biggest tobacco product consuming countries and 46 million people, including males, females and adolescents have been consuming tobacco products in the country posing a severe threat to the public health.
Besides, 1.2 million people are being affected annually by tobacco related diseases like brain hemorrhage lung cancer, cerebra- vascular, coronary artery, and chronic obstructive pulmonary and other tobacco-attributable diseases in the country, he said.
The speakers put emphasis on creating awareness among the tobacco product sellers and suppliers about the threat of increasing use of tobacco products to improve the situation through stopping smoking in public places, transports and use of tobacco products.
Speakers at an advocacy meeting have stressed ensuring strict implementation of the Smoking and Tobacco Products Usage (Control) Act and amended the Tobacco Control Act (TCA) for a greater national interest.
They especially advocated for ensuring smoking-free public places and transports, stopping advertisements for tobacco products and sale of tobacco products among the under-aged and adolescents and using them in marketing of tobacco products.
Association for Community Development (ACD) organised the advocacy meeting at its Rangpur Area Office to create awareness among the tobacco products sellers and marketers about these acts on Wednesday afternoon.
Additional Deputy Commissioner (Education & ICT) Dr ATM Mahbubul-Ul-Karim attended the meeting as the chief guest with project coordinator of ACD Ehsanul Amin Emon in the chair.
Focal person of Anti Tobacco Media Alliance (ATMA) Shushanto Bhowmick, its member Ahsan Habib Rabu, community mobilisers of ACD Rezaul Islam and Taufiqul Islam addressed.
Retailers and small-scale sellers, suppliers and marketers and dealers of tobacco products, leaders of tobacco product sellers’ associations and local journalists attended the meeting moderated by programme officer of ACD Asim Kumar.
Ehsanul Amin Emon narrated different aspects and violation of the amended TCA, necessity of strict implementation of the Smoking and Tobacco Products Usage (Control) Act and health hazards of smoking in public places.
He said Bangladesh is one of the biggest tobacco product consuming countries and 46 million people, including males, females and adolescents have been consuming tobacco products in the country posing a severe threat to the public health.
Besides, 1.2 million people are being affected annually by tobacco related diseases like brain hemorrhage lung cancer, cerebra- vascular, coronary artery, and chronic obstructive pulmonary and other tobacco-attributable diseases in the country, he said.
The speakers put emphasis on creating awareness among the tobacco product sellers and suppliers about the threat of increasing use of tobacco products to improve the situation through stopping smoking in public places, transports and use of tobacco products.
