Press Release: Home Minister Assured Support in Tobacco Control Hon’ble Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has declared to build a tobacco-free Bangladesh by 2040 to prevent premature deaths due to tobacco, protect the youth and reduce the overall damage of tobacco. In order to implement the commitment of the Prime Minister, the amendment work is […]
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Press Release: Tobacco Companies Desperate to Make 49% Youths Addict Tobacco companies are desperately trying to make 49% of the young population of Bangladesh addicted to drugs such as tobacco, the Association for the Prevention of Drug Abuse (MANAS) has alleged. They also said the government’s stake in tobacco companies created obstacles to attaining
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Press Release: Tobacco company fraud must be exposed -Speakers at the anti-tobacco orientation of media workers Tobacco companies are resorting to malfeasance and fraud to undermine public health protection programs. Media should play a more active role in eradicating tobacco from the country. The speakers expressed this opinion at the orientation program of media workers
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Press Release: Urge implementation of tobacco control laws and guidelines in local government institutions. It is necessary to effectively implement the existing Tobacco Control Act and the ‘Guidelines for the Implementation of Tobacco Control Activities of Local Government Institutions’ prepared by the Local Government Department to reduce the availability of tobacco products, including banning
Proposals to ban retail Tobacco Products and TI interference Experts on public health and tobacco control have called for stopping the sale of single stick of bidi and cigarette in the interest of protecting the health of poor people. They made the call and expressed their opinion in an online discussion held on 29 August
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Reporters Orientation Program’2022 An orientation program for media workers on Various aspects of tobacco control was held today (23 July 2022, Saturday) at the BMA Bhawan (Shaheed Dr. Milan Meeting Room) topkhana road in the capital. MANAS (Association for the Prevention of Drug Abuse) organizes the program. The purpose of the seminar was to
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MANAS delegation team met Ministry of Planning Early today (8 June’2022) a delegation team met with the Hon’ble Planning Minister M. A. Mannan MP at the Ministry of Planning by leading Prof Dr. ArupRatan Chowdhury, the founding president of MANAS. A brief discussion was held on tobacco control and drug eradication. Dr. Chowdhury will
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Call for Rapid passage of ‘Tobacco Cultivation Control Policy’ Discussion meeting on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day 2022 on 31 May 2022, Tuesday, 11 a.m. at Nasrul Hamid Milanayatan, Dhaka Reporters Unity. National Professor Independence Medallist, President of the “Diabetic Association of Bangladesh’’ (BADAS) Dr. AK Azad Khan was the Chief Guest of
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Press Conference: World no Tobacco Day 2022 May 31 is World No Tobacco Day. The theme of this year is “Tobacco-Free Environment, Healthy Bangladesh”. To mark the day, a press conference was organized by Manas today (May 30, 2022) at 11 am in the VIP Lounge of the National Press Club. Manas’s founding President
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Call for withdrawal of government shares from BATB A roundtable consultation with relevant stakeholders and eminent civil society members has organized MANAS (Madok o Nesha Nirodhok Siogostha), and the UNION on the divestment of government shares from the Tobacco Industry dated 24th May 2022, at Dhaka Reporters Unity, Nasrul Hamid Milanayatan, Dhaka Tuesday at
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