Report - Bill Passed Prohibiting Smoking in Public Places

Bill Passed Prohibiting Smoking in Public Places

Hasan Mahmud, Dhaka, 05 September: 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.