Tobacco Companies are using youths and modern communication tools to promote products at POS

In the name of part-time jobs, Tobacco Companies have now engaged youngsters (mostly college and university students) to promote their harmful products at sales points, superstores and roadside tea stalls in Dhaka city, violating the amended tobacco control law. This fact has been explored by one of our ATMA members Kamal Uddin Ahmed published on state run news agency

Conference to refocus post-2015 development agenda on poorest nations’ priorities

Conference to refocus post-2015 development agenda on poorest nations’ priorities

New ‘sustainable development goals’ for all nations to adopt in 2015 could deepen problems in the least developed countries (LDCs)  if they fail to take account of these nations’ priorities and the international nature of challenges they face.

So say the organisers of a high-level meeting next week that will enable frank and open dialogue between, on one hand, those in the political process of setting the goals and, on the other, those in LDCs who will need to implement the goals if they are to have any impact.

The meeting, on 29-31 January at Wilton Park has been organised by IIED and the UN Office of the High Representative for the Least

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Nilphamari & Lalmonirhat dists. newly added to tobacco-lands

Due to the allurements by the Tobacco Companies in the country, a total of 108,000 hectares of lands have been brought under tobacco cultivation this year; 38,000 hectares more than the last season, while Nilphamari and Lalmonirhat districts are new additions to tobacco farming. The shocking fact disclosed by one of our ATMA members, Abu Bakar Siddique, has been published on the