Media campaign against smoking emphasised
Sunday, 14 September 2008
Speakers at a views exchange in the city Saturday stressed the need for launching a media campaign for containing the adverse impacts of smoking and amending the exiting tobacco related laws, reports BSS.
They urged the concerned authorities to amend the current Tobacco Law to pave the way for introducing statutory warning with pictures on packets of bidis, cigarettes and tobacco related products giving greater importance to the issue of public health in Bangladesh like other countries of the world, a press release said.
"The introduction of pictorial health warnings on the packets of cigarettes and tobacco products has significantly reduced smoking in different countries of the world," they said.
The exchange of views with journalists on 'necessity of printing statutory warnings with picture on packets of bidis, cigarettes and tobacco products,' was held Saturday in the city.
Bangladesh Consortium on Tobacco Control (BCTC) in cooperation with the Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) organised the meeting to strengthen anti-tobacco campaign in Bangladesh. CAB President Borhan Ahmed presided over the function.
National Professional Officer of World Health Organisation (WHO) M Mostafa Zaman and chairman of BCTC and general secretary of CAB Kazi Farooq spoke on the occasion.
Quoting a WHO report, Mostafa Zaman said 57,000 people die in Bangladesh every year due tobacco related causes and that's why the statutory warnings with pictures would play a significant role in this regards," Borhan Ahmed urged the journalists to play a significant role in disseminating the beneficial information about the statutory warnings.
They urged the concerned authorities to amend the current Tobacco Law to pave the way for introducing statutory warning with pictures on packets of bidis, cigarettes and tobacco related products giving greater importance to the issue of public health in Bangladesh like other countries of the world, a press release said.
"The introduction of pictorial health warnings on the packets of cigarettes and tobacco products has significantly reduced smoking in different countries of the world," they said.
The exchange of views with journalists on 'necessity of printing statutory warnings with picture on packets of bidis, cigarettes and tobacco products,' was held Saturday in the city.
Bangladesh Consortium on Tobacco Control (BCTC) in cooperation with the Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) organised the meeting to strengthen anti-tobacco campaign in Bangladesh. CAB President Borhan Ahmed presided over the function.
National Professional Officer of World Health Organisation (WHO) M Mostafa Zaman and chairman of BCTC and general secretary of CAB Kazi Farooq spoke on the occasion.
Quoting a WHO report, Mostafa Zaman said 57,000 people die in Bangladesh every year due tobacco related causes and that's why the statutory warnings with pictures would play a significant role in this regards," Borhan Ahmed urged the journalists to play a significant role in disseminating the beneficial information about the statutory warnings.