On 19 June 2017 a view exchange meeting organized by anti-tobacco organizations working in Bangladesh and officials of Bangladesh Girls Guide Association (BGGA) at BGGA office. ...

are 154 products under BSTI list, of which products quality are examine and give approval. Since tobacco is not our compulsory product, we do not examine the quality of these products. We can made tobacco products as compulsory. Besides, after analysis steps will also be taken to put the production and expiry date on tobacco products. On 18 June 2017, Director General of BSTI Md. Saiful Hasib expressed this while meeting with a delegation team of Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance (BATA) at his ...

Bangladesh, about 100,000 people die in every year due to tobacco related diseases. Smoking and tobacco consumption is responsible for about 14.6% of total death in the country. So, cooperating tobacco company or participating in their activities or stand aside on preventing deception is in fact tantamount to encouraging death. Experts expressed the above opinion in a view exchange meeting held at Work for a Better Bangladesh (WBB) Trust on 3 April 2017 jointly organized by Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB), Tobacco ...

DGHS and Work for a Better Bangladesh (WBB) Trust jointly organized a seminar titled “Necessity of ensuring the implementation of FCTC article 5.3 and sustainable funding for NCD control” held at meeting room of DGHS on 16 March 2017. ...

Taking proper steps to implement Article 5.3.of international tobacco control treaty FCTC is necessary to keep the law and policies free from tobacco companies influence. Speakers expressed this in a seminar titled “Necessity of implementation of FCTC article 5.3 in tobacco control” held at Chittagong divisional commissioner’s office on 6 February 2017. WBB Trust, Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance and The Union jointly organized the seminar. ...