Dhaka | Dhaka City | Bangladeshi News
Dhaka | Dhaka City | Bangladeshi News
The Anti-Tobacco Media Alliance, or ATMA, has called for increasing tobacco prices by raising taxes for the products in line with the system recommended by the World Health Organization. According to a statement by ATMA, the alliance raised the demand in a meeting with National Board of Revenue chairman Abu Hena MD Rahmatul Munim. During […]
Experts and anti-tobacco advocates have called for strengthening tobacco control legislation to help Bangladesh achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. In a recent virtual discussion, speakers highlighted the barriers created by tobacco in achieving the SDGs. Knowledge for Progress or PROGGS and Anti-Tobacco Media Alliance or ATMA organized the event in association […]
Lawmakers, public health experts, doctors, economists and anti-tobacco activists have called for early finalization of amendments to the tobacco control law to protect public health. He made the call during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s discussion on the vision, achievements and way forward for a tobacco-free Bangladesh by 2040. Campaign for Tobacco-Free Children, PROGGA (Knowledge for […]
Bangladesh is among the top smokeless tobacco-using nations in the world, a new global report has said. The report produces sufficient evidence to conclude that smokeless tobacco, like smoking, causes cancer and serious health harms. It also points out that the smokeless tobacco use remains an “overlooked” public health menace in the world. The US […]
In India, roughly 80 percent of breast cancer patients have been in an modernized theatre when they come to a hospital, contend doctors. Among a budding factors fuelling a mildew in a country, generally between civic women, have been fast-paced lives as well as behind reproductive activity, they add. No time for fitness, bad food, […]
A check for the legislative addition of the Tobacco Control Act 2005 would be placed in the subsequent parliamentary session, Chief Whip Vice-Principal Abdus Shahid pronounced yesterday. Considering which there have been the small stipulations in the law, the amendments will be brought in so which it can work some-more strongly to carry out tobacco […]
Experts from opposite sectors yesterday endorsed commanding aloft duties upon tobacco products as great as raising fines to forestall smoking in public. They additionally advocated to house impressive warnings upon tobacco products as great as anathema civilised world as great as import of tobacco. The recommendations came from a roundtable, patrician “Dangers of Tobacco: Way […]
