Tobacco companies are placing illegal advertisements and promotions targeting children and youth despite this being a punishable offence under Bangladeshi law. Tobacco company propaganda directed through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) campaigns is also banned due to its negative influence on policy-makers and the public. Point-of-sale advertising and promotion is also banned. No tobacco company or shop owner is permitted to show any ads, signs or symbols representing tobacco. In…

Polling centres free from smoking: CEC

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed has said that all the polling centers of Bangladesh are now designated smoke-free under the rules of the Election Commission (EC). Smoking is completely prohibited in the areas of…

I am writing to share information about a NCD related policy and law review work which I completed recently. The title of the study is “Review of NCD law and acts in Bangladesh’’. This work was supported by DGHS and WHO-Bangladesh. Under this study a of total 25 laws & 8 policies were reviewed. Laws relating to food, environmental protection, physical activity and the control of harmful products were reviewed. The following are the results of this review. …

Greetings for enactment of Tobacco Control Law amendment bill

Call for law compliance

Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance (BATA) greeted Jatiya Sangsad for enactment of most desired Tobacco Control Law amendment bill. Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance (BATA), a platform of more than 700 organizations across country greeted government, media, mass people and Jatiya Sangsad from a demonstration organized at the premise of Teacher and Student Center (TSC) of University of…

Greetings for enactment of Tobacco Control Law amendment bill 

Call for law compliance 



Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance (BATA) greeted Jatiya Sangsad for enactment of most desired Tobacco Control Law amendment bill. Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance (BATA), a platform of more than 700 organizations across country greeted government, media, mass people and Jatiya Sangsad from a demonstration organized at the…

Just 10 minutes ago, Bangladesh National Parliament have passed the TC amendment bill.

update information of TC law will let you know later. But more or less we already shared several times wit you that:

- pictorial warning at 50%

- elaboration of public place and public transports definition

- increase punishment for law violation by TI

- increase punishment for smoking at public places/transports

- ban direct/indirect ads

-include chew tobacco within tobacco…

Enactment of law amendment bill demanded in upcoming parliament

Anti-tobacco organizations demanded enactment of tobacco law amendment bill with recommendations of nullification of provision of smoke-free zone, provision of individual right to litigate for law violation, and stopping tobacco ads under CSR activities by tobacco companies. The speakers made the demand from a roundtable jointly organized by WBB Trust, ACLAB, AID, Prottyasha, and NATAB at BILIA Center…

Enactment of law amendment bill demanded in upcoming parliament

Anti-tobacco organizations demanded enactment of tobacco law amendment bill with recommendations of nullification of provision of smoke-free zone, provision of individual right to litigate for law violation, and stopping tobacco ads under CSR activities by tobacco companies. The speakers made the demand from a roundtable jointly organized by WBB Trust, ACLAB, AID, Prottyasha, and NATAB at BILIA Center…

 Anti-tobacco organizations demanded enactment of tobacco law amendment bill with recommendations of nullification of provision of smoke-free zone, provision of individual right to litigate for law violati

on, and stopping tobacco ads under…

Note before reading: This article were published at National English Daily named "Financial Express" on World Health Day, 7 April 2013. Link is http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/index.php?ref=MjBfMDRfMDdfMTNfMV85Ml8xNjU2NjM=. You can read also from below, Thanks, Aminul Islam Sujon…

Mass awareness of Smoke free public places (DMP’s declaration on smoke free Pohela Boishak)

Pohela Boishak (first day of Bangla Year) is the largest festival for all Bangalies. This year the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) declared all festive areas smoke-free in Dhaka including Ramna Park (the most popular national event in Batomul is inside of this park), Sohrawardi Udyan, TSC, Shahbag etc. Millions of people visited these events. DMP’s smoke free declaration is a positive…

FEBRUARY 4 has been marked as World Cancer Day since 2006 in line with an announcement by the World Health Organisation. However, the day was first conceptualised in 1933 in Geneva, under the Union for International Cancer Control, with support from prominent cancer societies, treatment centres, research institutes and patient groups, and aiming to bring down the number of deaths caused by the deadly disease.

According to a 2008 estimate of the WHO, cancer is a…

Dr. Nurul Islam pioneered movement of Health Rights and Tobacco Control

Dr. Nurul Islam was a pioneer in assuring health rights of people and movement on tobacco products reduction. The youth should com forward to accomplish his dreams. The speakers said at commemoration meeting for recently demised National Professor Dr. Nurul Islam to at 10.30 AM in BILIA Center, Dhanmondi today. The function was addressed by National Professor Brigadier (Retd.) A…

World Cancer Day-2013 Law amendment demanded for cancer prevention

Different cancers like oral cavity cancer, lung cancer have occurred for smoking and tobacco consumption. Cancer is a devastating disease worldwide. It is possible to prevent 50% cancer by avoiding tobacco use, unhygienic food…

Sports should be freed from smoking and Tobacco Ads

Necessary steps should be taken to make sports, media of physical exercise and mental flourishing smoke-free as per tobacco…

Call for law amendment in the current session of National parliament

Anti-tobacco publications handed over to Parliament Members

Anti-tobacco publications on tobacco control activities and action plan for tobacco control law amendment was handed over to Parliament Members at Parliament Members Club today in the morning.

The publications were distributed as part of the regular tobacco control…

Unhygienic food habit and tobacco use are responsible for NCDs 

Day long divisional workshop held at Dhaka 

Work for a Better Bangladesh (WBB) Trust has organized a day long divisional workshop on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) at BILIA Center Auditorium in the morning…

Jatya Party Supports Tobacco Control Law Amendment: Ershad

JP Chief vows to BATA Team

Smoking and tobacco use kills people; generates adverse impact on public health and economy. Jatya Party Chief and former President…