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Harmful impacts of tobacco to be incorporated in textbook: Nahid

DHAKA, May 27, 2018 (BSS) - Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid today said harmful impacts of tobacco would be incorporated in the textbooks to create awareness against all sorts of tobacco consumption among the students.

"There are huge negative impacts on human health for consumption of tobacco and tobacco products... So, we should educate our students on harmful effects of tobacco from student life," he told a prize distribution function at the auditorium of CIRDAP here.

PROGGA, a non-government organization and Anti-Tobacco Media Alliance (ATMA), jointly organized the function titled "PROGGA Tobacco Control Journalism Award".

Founder of National Hurt Foundation of Bangladesh National Professor Brigadier (retd) Abdul Malek, Director General of Directorate General of Health Service Prof Dr Abul Kalam Azad, Convenor of ATMA Murtuza Haidar Liton and Executive Director of PROGGA ABM Zubayer, among others, addressed the function with journalist Mozammel Hossain in the chair.

Nahid said, "We have already included harmful aspects of tobacco and drug in the textbook. Now we have to include different aspects of tobacco aiming to protect our new generation from clutches of tobacco consumption."

He laid emphasis on strong enforcement of tobacco control law to decrease tobacco uses to zero level.

In Bangladesh, at least 57 thousand people die each year from eight tobacco related diseases. The rate of tobacco use in Bangladesh is one of the highest in the world. More than 43 percent of the adult population use tobacco in any form.

The anti-tobacco campaigners called upon the government to enforce the anti-tobacco law strictly to stop all forms of promotional campaign on tobacco and tobacco products aiming to protect the people from its harmful effects.