Jarda and Gul are the two types of smokeless tobacco used mainly in Bangladesh. The research cell of Dhaka International University, Tobacco Control and Research Cell (TCRC), conducted a study from March 2016 to July 2019. Total 788 brands of SLT were collected from 265 wholesale markets of smokeless tobacco from all 64 districts and one sub-district of each districts of Bangladesh among these 730 brands of Jorda and 58 brands were of Gul.
Total 347 Jorda companies and 40 Gul companies have fond through this study. Of these, 676 brands of Jorda and 48 brands of Gul have been found the name of the company on their packets. On the other hand 36 brands of Jorda and 10 brands of Gul have no name and address on the packets. Apart from this, there are 18 brands of Jorda found in the markets, which are originally from India. Here some of the notable brands of Jorda found in the country, which are made entirely of foreign wraps, look exactly like some of the Indian Jorda. Some of the SLT users in the country so much interested to use Indian Jorda that’s the causes to packets like Indian Jorda and also easy to tax evasion by the company.
