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KHAN: Fighting the tobacco epidemic 

The lies or myths surrounding tobacco are deliberately put into circulation by the tobacco companies not only to make sure that their products remain in circulation against the threats they face but also to push their sales as part of their survival and expansion strategies. Shorn of any moral foundation, these killer companies are caught up in a desperate situation of not 'do or die' but of 'kill or die'. They get fresh leases of life by inventing new ways of marketing that give them license to indulge in killing sprees and orgies of mass murder.

Eying for hefty profits at an enormous cost to the public health, the tobacco giants continue to operate their 'death trade' enjoying complete immunity and staying beyond accountability under the state patronage mostly in the developing countries. . . .

It has been the mission of premier national anti-tobacco organisations ADHUNIK and CAT (Coalition Against Tobacco) to dismantle the smokescreen erected by tobacco companies around their toxic products to enable the people to see the light of the truth that lay buried under the trash of smoked ashes. As anti-tobacco campaigners, we must renew our pledge on WNTD 2007 to continue our all-out war on tobacco until we can rid the world from its scourge beginning with Bangladesh.

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