Cigarette tax increases included in Bangladesh's proposed 2018-19 budget are said to be insufficient to keep the country on track toward its 2040 tobacco-free goal.Read More
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A drop in tobacco plantings in the Rangpur district of Bangladesh is being put down to an awakening by farmers to the health implications of what they were doing.Read More
If a country that grows tobacco wants to cut the health consequences of smoking within its borders, should it or should it not tax tobacco-product exports? Read More
The government of Bangladesh seems to have been in no hurry to use the revenue from a tobacco surcharge to deliver a tobacco control policy.Read More
Bangladesh is to phase out bidis and cheap cigarettes from its market as international cigarette brands take over.Read More
The government of Bangladesh has ordered tobacco companies to print graphic health warnings on the upper half of the front and back of the tobacco packs from Sept. 19.Read More
With two in five Bangladeshi school children reporting that they smoke, calls are being made to strengthen tobacco-control programs in the country.Read More
Tobacco manufacturers in Bangladesh look likely to be hit with a 2.5 percent surcharge on their incomes from the sale of products such as cigarettes and bidis.Read More
While many observers see electronic cigarettes as part of a new wave of harm reduction, Bangladesh’s Finance Minister lumps them with traditional cigarettes.Read More
Money taken from smokers as part of a government ‘health development surcharge’ has done nobody any good because, three years down the line, it lies unused.Read More