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 Framework Control on Tobacco Control
Age-standardized prevalence of tobacco smoking among persons aged 15+
As per the WHO report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2015, prevalence of adult smoking in Bangladesh fell from 34.6% to 20.0% between 200 and 2013.
Bangladesh has strengthened enforcement of tobacco law and is creating public awareness and adopted higher taxes on all types of marketed tobacco products. More than a quarter of the adult population in Bangladesh use smokeless tobacco or chewing tobacco. Bangladesh signed the WHO framework on Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). The government through amending tobacco control law enforced tobacco warning graphics that cover 50% of the package, banned all media advertisement on all tobacco products, raised tobacco tax by 76%. The government in collaboration with WHO and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease prepared a series of trainings to facilitate the strategic planning and action among those responsible for promoting, developing and implementing and enforcing effective and sustainable national tobacco control; programs for compacting tobacco epidemic in the country. A tobacco tax cell has also been set up in the National Board of Revenue.
   20.3%
Bangladesh
21.9%
WHO-SEAR average
22.7%
Global Average
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