Category: World No Tobacco Day

How cigarette companies got from red to orange category, environmentalists are surprised!

In the Environmental Protection Rules, tobacco-related industrial establishments have been classified in the comparatively less harmful orange category instead of the red category. This will create confusion about the harm of tobacco and companies will have the opportunity to take more business benefits. Considering the harmful effects of tobacco on public health and the environment, it is necessary to amend the Environmental Protection Rules 2023 again and re-list tobacco manufacturing establishments in the red category. Speakers made this demand at a meeting held at the Akram Khan Hall of the National Press Club at 11:00 am on May 30 (Thursday) 2024, under the joint initiative of the Poribesh Bachao Andolan (POBA), Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance (BATA), Anti-Tobacco Women's…

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Smoke free Police station (Thana) of Bangladesh Police

All police station of  Bangladesh are smoke free. Bangladesh is one of the countries among the low and middle income sectors to have the privilege to create smoke-free workplace for such a big froce. Police-station is government ofice. Many non smoker including woman and children come here for various services. Home minister Adocate Shahara Khutun MP has proclaimed that staement while speaking as chief guest on the occasion of declaring Ramna model police-station smoke-free as part of celebrating World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) 2010. Work for a Better Bangladesh Trust and Bangladesh Tamak Birodhi Jote (BATA) in collaboration with Dhaka Metropolitan polic (DMP) undertook initiative to make all police station of Bangladesh smoke free which began from…

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