Bill Passed
Prohibiting Smoking in Public Places
Mabrur Atiqi, Dhaka, 04 November: Health and Family Welfare Minister
yesterday introduced a bill in parliament seeking to prohibit smoking in public
places and public transports. The public places including educational
institutions, government, semi-government, and autonomous offices, library,
lift, hospital, clinic, court building, airport, sea and river port, buildings,
railway stations, and bus terminal buildings, ferry, cinema, covered exhibition
center, theater hall, children's park, and other places designated by gazetted
notifications.
The
bill also seeks to provide for restriction on advertisement of tobacco products
in cinema, government, private television channels, sale of films or video
tapes containing tobacco products, publication of advertisement in book,
magazine, leaflet, handbill, billboard, newspapers, etc.
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