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has amended Smoking and Tobacco Product Usage (Control) Act 2005 in 2013 and passed rules for the act in 2015. According to amended TC law and rules, no sale and marketing of tobacco products without graphic health warning in the tobacco packages from 19th March 2016. But the multinational tobacco companies are doing various kinds of misleading campaign and applying different types of plot to prevent the pictorial health warning labels. To prevent their unethical activity and demand of ensuring ...
After 11 years of the enactment of the law, when Bangladesh is going to implement graphic health warning from March 19 of this year, the cunning tobacco companies are being fraudulent. Everyone should be united to prevent death-stick seller tobacco industries. The TC law is for public health promotion, not for giving fraudulent opportunities to tobacco companies. So tobacco companies' unethical activities have to be defended. ...
whole Bangladesh is hoping of graphic health warning in all tobacco packages. In a recently conducted survey, all participants identified the GHW as an effective practice for tobacco control which will be executed from 19th March 2016. The above research findings has been shared in a meeting titled "Implementation of Tobacco Control Act and Current Situation", jointly organized by Tobacco Control Research Cell (TCRC) of Dhaka International University (DIU) and Work for a Better Bangladesh Trust held on 11th January 2016 ...
Despite of being the first signatory country of Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), Bangladesh is far behind to provide graphic health warning in tobacco products. Which dent the reputation of Bangladesh in the international arena. Basically to making addicted youth in tobacco, multinational tobacco companies are conspired for avoiding graphic health warning. Anti-tobacco organizations support the Health Minister Mohammad Nasim's firm's steps to prevent fraudulent activities and conspiracy of tobacco companies. ...
Exercising pictorial warning about harmful consequence of tobacco in the packet is the most effective way of awareness building. Speakers gave this opinion in a view exchange meeting entitled "Role of media to implement the provision of putting pictorial warning in the packet of tobacco products". The program arranged jointly by Protect to Journalist and WBB Trust at Koiborto meeting room, WBB Trust at 30th july 2015. ...