Assess compliance to existing Tobacco Control Law among task force (TF) committee members across 10 districts in Bangladesh
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Dhaka International University, Tobacco Control and Research Cell, Bangladesh
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Dhaka International University, Department of Business Administration, Bangladesh
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Comilla University, Department of Statistics, Bangladesh
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Work for a Better Bangladesh (WBB) Trust, Health, Bangladesh
Publication date: 2018-03-01
Tob. Induc. Dis. 2018;16(Suppl 1):A613
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Background:
Bangladesh is the first
signatory countries of WHO FCTC. Bangladesh signed on 16 June 2003 and ratified
on 14 June 2004. The government of Bangladesh has taken several initiatives to
reduce tobacco use. Bangladesh government has enacted tobacco
control law in 2005 and amended in 2013 along with notification of the revised rules
in 2015.
Methods:
Cross sectional study design, quantitative and
qualitative approaches, purposive sampling method and semi-structured
questionnaire and oral interview used to conduct the survey. The objectives of
the study was to assess the knowledge and attitudes of Task Force (TF) regarding Tobacco
Control (TC) Law. SPSS 21, Microsoft Excel used to analysis the data.
Results:
85 % staff know about TC law among the visited
office and still now people smoke into the office area in 25 % offices. But 83
% office display No Smoking Signage. In terms of Task Force (TF) committee
meeting, 67% TF members said that district TF meeting hold regularly. In terms
of enforcement of tobacco control law, 85%
respondents argue that mobile court conduct regularly but 57% said that they
have lack of logistic support for conducting mobile court. Very interesting is that 59% TF members do not know about FCTC article 5.3, which is known as
safeguard for tobacco control.
Conclusions:
It
can be said that a noticeable change have been seen on tobacco control issues. But
tobacco companies are still trying to increase their sales among the young as
potential customer by different illegal promotional campaign. So that awareness
building programs should be conducted, logistic support should be delivered and
social pressure should be created as people can be aware of their strategy and
can able to protect it. So, government should take initiative immediately to
implement the graphic health warning on all tobacco products to protect people
as well as society.
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Achieving a tobacco-free Bangladesh by 2040: a qualitative analysis of the tobacco advertising environment and prohibitions in Bangladesh
Arsenios Tselengidis, Sally Adams, Becky Freeman, Syed Alam, Putu Astuti, Jo Cranwell
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