Jump to full article: New Age (bd), 2012-01-26
Intro: The Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance on Thursday demanded amendment to the tobacco control law in order to reduce diseases and deaths caused by tobacco consumption.
Leaders and activists of the alliance made the demand from a human chain in front of the faculty of fine arts in the capital.
They said, according to a survey conducted by the alliance, around 57,000 people died and 38,2000 contracted various diseases because of tobacco consumption.
The existing anti-tobacco law of 2005 was a positive step towards development of public health, but because of some loopholes in the law it could not take total effect on the people.
The cigarette companies, going against the clauses of the law, continued to find new techniques to attract people into smoking, they alleged.
A large chunk of the population is illiterate and so unable to understand the health awareness grounds.
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