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…

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…

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…

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…

Tobacco Control in Bangladesh published

Law amendment pass must be done at coming parliament: Speakers demanded

Tobacco use is cause of serious diseases and death, so that it needs to be controlled strongly to save people from tobacco related death. It is constitutional responsibility to the government and policy makers to amendment the tobacco control law as the draft is approved by cabinet division recently in a meeting…

Enactment of Law amendment bill claimed in coming Parliament

Increase of tobacco use is one of the reasons of increasing non-communicable diseases in low-income countries. Parliamentarians are to enact tobacco control law amendment bill sooner to control tobacco related non-communicable diseases like cancer, heart disease, and stroke. The demand was made from a demonstration program held in front of Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka today in the…

Note before read: Greetings. Today is 12-12-12. Triple twelve for this century. We have done a good initiative successfully as today minister for telecommunication, Ms Sahara Khatun declared all office of Bangladesh Post offices smoke free.…

All infrastructures of NCC declared smoke-free

The Nagar Bhaban, local offices, offices of ward councilors and all offices of Narayangonj City Corporation have been declared smoke-free. Mayor of Narayangonj City Corporation Selina Hayat Ivy has given the declaration. The Mayor has given the declaration in replying the request by Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance (BATA).…

Tobacco cultivation vs food security, environment, public health and economy

Our forest and environment are going to damages for tobacco cultivation and also reduces crops land, which is a big threat for food security. Tobacco leaf curing periods need many trees, which is one of the main reason to reduces forestry in Bangladesh. Not only tobacco use, every process of tobacco is equally harmful for health. Specially it harms farmers health by many ways, which is reason to reduce…

My interview recently published in http://www.unfairtobacco.org/en/ich-halte-politische-masnahmen-zur-kontrolle-des-tabakanbaus-fur-wichtiger/. 

Aminul Islam Sujon…

Ban on Tobacco Company’s sneaky CSR campaign demanded  

Experts opined at workshop on Article 5.3

As tobacco is directly involved in mass demise, ethically no government official should attend Tobacco Company’s programs.…

State Minister of Health at NNTD-2012 discussion

Pictorial Health Warning thru’ Law Amendment

Currently 43% people use tobacco. Tobacco use is increasing due to

company’s advertisements and loopholes of tobacco control law. Tobacco

law is being amended…

To obliged constitutional responsibility, need to amendment TC law soon

Speakers at a discussion by WBB and BATA

Using or consuming tobacco products is cause for serious diseases and death, so that it needs to control strongly to save people from tobacco related death. It is constitutional responsibility to the government and policy makers to amendment the tobacco control law as the draft is approved by cabinet division recently in a meeting presided by Prime…

Although it takes much time to approve the draft law by the cabinet. Unless cabinet approval, the law will not go to the parliament for its passes as law. However, it is great initiatives as the block has been overcome. Last year, when the law supposes to discuss at cabinet meeting, it was cancelled from list of agenda by finance minister observance. We also know it that BAT’s influences were the behind of finance minister Mr. M A Muhit’s observation.  

I hope that government should…

BAT’s tree plantation at Sangsad Bhaban Premise: Tricks to impede tobacco control

On the eve of tobacco control law amendment, BAT’s tree plantation at National Assembly Premise is a trick to obstruct tobacco control in Bangladesh. Approval of such tarnished initiative to tobacco companies which are generating death and disease and deterring environment is very atrocious for tobacco control. A team of Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance-BATA made…

Tobacco control law needs amendment sooner to reduce death

Aminul Islam Sujon

By the WHO statement in 2008, Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide and accounted for 7.6 million deaths (around 13% of all deaths). The main types of cancer are: lung (1.4 million deaths), stomach (740 000 deaths), liver (700 000 deaths), colorectal (610 000 deaths), breast (460 000 deaths). About 70% of all cancer deaths…

Right to Life: Tobacco control law amendment necessary

Aminul Islam Sujon

Do we all know that, how many peoples die in a single minute or an hour or single day due to tobacco consumption? I am sure that peoples (respected readers of this piece) would be surprised to see that how many peoples die in a year as well because of tobacco use. Well, let’s see the figure. Less than 6 second, 1 people (smoker or tobacco user) die in this world for tobacco related disease. So, more than…

Dr. Chan, Director General of WHO, came out strong at the "Building global solidarity to counter the tobacco industry's attacks" event, with a rally cry to fight tobacco intimidation.  She raised her voice to build solidarity to support countries where the tobacco industry is interfering with moving policies forward to control tobacco advertising and usage.  Some strategies of the tobacco industry include the traditional ones: youth marketing, targeting women, political control and…