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Urgent law amendment stressed

Prevent tobacco related deaths and diseases, tobacco control law,  tobacco control law implementation, WBB Trust, BATAWore for a Better Bangladesh Trust organized a conference at National Press Club on 27 June 2012. The only legal trade in the globe is tobacco business which directly leads people to death. Multi-national and national level tobacco companies are working to kill people across the world. As a result, tobacco use and tobacco related deaths are increasing in countries like Bangladesh. Advanced countries enacted strict regulations with pictorial tobacco health warnings to keep people away from tobacco use. But deadly tobacco companies are trying to hinder law amendment in Bangladesh. To protest company conspiracy and to reduce tobacco related deaths NGOs, mass media and professional organizations from all walks of life should work together.