BSS, Rajshahi :
Local journalists at a discussion here Sunday underscored the need for more media reports relating to the negative impacts of illicit trade of tobacco to make the anti-tobacco campaign successful.
They viewed that the mass media has a vital role to play to press the authorities concerned for imposing restriction on tobacco’s illegal trade alongside smoking in public places and transports as it has become indispensable for protecting the nonsmokers from various chronic diseases caused by second hand smoke exposure.
Anti Tobacco Media Alliance (ATMA) in association with Association for Community Development (ACD) organized the regional meeting held at ACD’s conference hall. PROGGA and Bloomberg Philanthropies supported the meeting.
There is no alternative to full-length enforcement of the existing tobacco control law besides bringing the law-violators to book, the speakers said.
With ATMA Member Ashraful Islam in the chair, ACD Programme Coordinator Ehsanul Amin Emon, ATMA Members Alamgir Kabir Tota, SM Atique, Sharif Suman and Poritosh Chowdhury Adittiya spoke on the occasion, among others.
They said social awareness and self-rectification is very essential to
make the society free from tobacco uses and the smoking in particular,
and added that media can play a pivotal role to sensitize the community people in this regard.
Ehsanul Amin Emon alleged that a number of tobacco companies are expanding their market promotional activities everywhere in the name of corporate social responsibilities, which must be resisted.
Taking part in the discussion, the ATMA members said that pictorial health warning on the tobacco products is useful to create awareness about the impacts of tobacco.
They observed that most of the people of our country are illiterate, yet pictorial tobacco health warning has not been incorporated in our country which clearly hinders people from knowing the hazardous consequences of using tobacco products.
Local journalists at a discussion here Sunday underscored the need for more media reports relating to the negative impacts of illicit trade of tobacco to make the anti-tobacco campaign successful.
They viewed that the mass media has a vital role to play to press the authorities concerned for imposing restriction on tobacco’s illegal trade alongside smoking in public places and transports as it has become indispensable for protecting the nonsmokers from various chronic diseases caused by second hand smoke exposure.
Anti Tobacco Media Alliance (ATMA) in association with Association for Community Development (ACD) organized the regional meeting held at ACD’s conference hall. PROGGA and Bloomberg Philanthropies supported the meeting.
There is no alternative to full-length enforcement of the existing tobacco control law besides bringing the law-violators to book, the speakers said.
With ATMA Member Ashraful Islam in the chair, ACD Programme Coordinator Ehsanul Amin Emon, ATMA Members Alamgir Kabir Tota, SM Atique, Sharif Suman and Poritosh Chowdhury Adittiya spoke on the occasion, among others.
They said social awareness and self-rectification is very essential to
make the society free from tobacco uses and the smoking in particular,
and added that media can play a pivotal role to sensitize the community people in this regard.
Ehsanul Amin Emon alleged that a number of tobacco companies are expanding their market promotional activities everywhere in the name of corporate social responsibilities, which must be resisted.
Taking part in the discussion, the ATMA members said that pictorial health warning on the tobacco products is useful to create awareness about the impacts of tobacco.
They observed that most of the people of our country are illiterate, yet pictorial tobacco health warning has not been incorporated in our country which clearly hinders people from knowing the hazardous consequences of using tobacco products.
