Tobacco must be controlled to save youth: Speaker
Smoking among young people has risen in recent times, posing a threat to the country's public health. Therefore, in addition to raising public awareness against the harmful effects of tobacco products, it is important to amend the existing tobacco control law and enforce it, said the Speaker of Parliament Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury MP.
She said this while talking to the 'Bangladesh Parliamentary Forum for Health and Wellbeing' at her office on today Thursday, April 12.
The Speaker Said, 'The government taking numbers of initiatives to prevent Non-Communicable Disease. But if we could not control the use of tobacco products, all these initiatives will be useless. The use of tobacco products including smoking is increasing among the youth in the country day by day. If we want to ...