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Pictorial Warning on Cigarette Packets 
Demanded
The Independent, 3 March 2003, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Work for a Better Bangladesh yesterday demanded inscription of warning along with photo on the cigarette packets mentioning diseases caused by smoking.

Research officer of the organization Ratan Deb, Syed Mahbubul Alam and Rafiqul Islam Milon Spoke at a press conference at the Dhaka reporters unity (DRU) where the research report titled “Tobacco Control Act: Peoples Aspirations’’ was released. 

They Said tobacco product were being produced and marketed in different countries of the world including Canada and Brazil with pictorial warning on the packets about the dangers of smoking. They said Thailand was also going to implement inscription of such warning on cigarette packet from this year. 

The Researchers of the organization demanded inscription of health warning on 50 percent of the space on the packet of cigarette mentioning diseases caused by tobacco smoking. They also demanded shunning words like “light” “mild”, low-tar and added that 15 European Union countries have announced stoppage of misleading words like this. 

The researchers in their survey found that 63 percent children participating in survey had seen cigarette advertisements on the electronic media, especially television channels, children know the name of cigarette more than their necessary things, children aged 10 and 11 know the name of Gold leaf cigarette more then “Meena Cartoon”. They said the survey revealed that the children know the name of cigarette more than the child right week, Independence Day, Victory Day and Amar Ehushey International Mother Language day. 

Among the 5-year-old children 62 per cent children could not say the date of mother language day but 34 per cent of then could mention the name of a brand of cigarette. Though 45 per cent children could not say the date of independence and National day 85 percent of them could mention the name of a brand of cigarette. Of those participation in the survey 91 percent of smokers and 97 percent of the non-smokers wanted ban on tobacco advertisement.


The survey found that the adolescents and youth smokers were very important, as they are the main consumer of tobacco. When a youth chooses a brand the possibility of his sticking to the brand for rest of the life was very high. According to the survey most of the smoker did not know that tobacco was addictive though the tobacco companies also admit it. 

FWD: Syed Mahbubul Alam 





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