Source: The New Nation (bd)
Date: 2010-02-21
Author:  Staff Reporter

Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance and Protyasha yesterday jointly
staged a symbolic sit-in programme in the city demanding an end
to advertising, publicity and promotional activities of the
tobacco companies.

Speakers at the programme in front of the National Museum at
Shahbagh in the city stated the tobacco companies attract the
youth generation to the tobacco applying various promotional
activities in favour of tobacco use like advertising and
publicity.

The tobacco companies display tobacco signboards and posters and
award gifts and arrange different types of competition, though
these are completely unlawful.

They also demanded punishment to law violating tobacco companies
through driving mobile court.