BSS, Rajshahi :
Speakers at a knowledge-sharing meeting have stressed for strict enforcement of the amended Tobacco Control Act (TCA) in public places and public transports to save thousands of non-smokers from passive smoking and human lives.
They put special emphasis on creating public awareness about harms of using smoking and non-smoking tobacco products and tobacco-related diseases those have been killing millions of people in the globe annually posing a real threat to human civilisation.
The observations came a meeting titled “Strengthening Tobacco Control in Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions” held at the conference hall of Association for Community Development (ACD) in the city yesterday.
ACD and Rajshahi Tobacco Control Coalition (RTCC) jointly organised the meeting for preparing annual plan on controlling smoking and using tobacco products in association with Bloomberg Philanthropies and Campaign for Tobacco-free Kids.
Acting Mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation Nizam-Ul Azim and Executive Director of BCDP Altaf Hossain addressed the discussion as chief and special guests respectively with Salima Sarwar, Executive Director of ACD, in the chair.
During his keynote presentation, Ehsanul Amin, Programme Coordinator of ACD, said 57,000 people are dying in Bangladesh annually consuming tobacco products and 1.2m suffering from lung cancer, cerebra-vascular, coronary artery, chronic obstructive pulmonary and other tobacco-attributable diseases.
Speakers at a knowledge-sharing meeting have stressed for strict enforcement of the amended Tobacco Control Act (TCA) in public places and public transports to save thousands of non-smokers from passive smoking and human lives.
They put special emphasis on creating public awareness about harms of using smoking and non-smoking tobacco products and tobacco-related diseases those have been killing millions of people in the globe annually posing a real threat to human civilisation.
The observations came a meeting titled “Strengthening Tobacco Control in Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions” held at the conference hall of Association for Community Development (ACD) in the city yesterday.
ACD and Rajshahi Tobacco Control Coalition (RTCC) jointly organised the meeting for preparing annual plan on controlling smoking and using tobacco products in association with Bloomberg Philanthropies and Campaign for Tobacco-free Kids.
Acting Mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation Nizam-Ul Azim and Executive Director of BCDP Altaf Hossain addressed the discussion as chief and special guests respectively with Salima Sarwar, Executive Director of ACD, in the chair.
During his keynote presentation, Ehsanul Amin, Programme Coordinator of ACD, said 57,000 people are dying in Bangladesh annually consuming tobacco products and 1.2m suffering from lung cancer, cerebra-vascular, coronary artery, chronic obstructive pulmonary and other tobacco-attributable diseases.
