Teenagers are addicted to cigarettes

2018, 01:55 BSS 

About 12 percent of the country's boys and girls are regularly addicted to smoking. Of these 9 percent are teenagers and 3 percent are girls.

The UK's influential daily 'The Guardian' recently quoted a survey conducted by the World Health Organization in several countries in the world, according to a report.

The Global Global Tobacco Survey was conducted in different countries by the World Health Organization initiative.

The survey conducted among boys and girls aged between 13 and 15 years has revealed the use of tobacco products in different ways, including smoking in India, Indonesia and Bangladeshi teenager smoking.

Among the three countries, smoking in Indonesia is the highest among teens and adolescents.

According to the World Health Organization's survey, the Guardian report said that the world's top multinational Tobacco companies are using school students to promote the sale of cigarettes. Especially in middle and low-income countries, children and adolescents are being used for promotion of cigarette advertising in exchange for money.

These companies are also using school students on their daily basis to run their own brand of cigarette campaign.

In the same report, it has been mentioned that new campaigns have started in the world to unblock children and adolescents. The anti-tobacco campaign is underway in 22 countries of the world.

In addition to the anti-smoking campaign, anti-tobacco organizations and non-government organizations have urged the citizens of the countries concerned to take preventive measures against smoking in addition to urging the citizens to come forward with anti-tobacco campaign.

Campion for Tobacco Freaks (CTFT), Grants Manzor Dr. Mahfuzur Rahman Bhuiyan said, "The Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's announcement will not be possible by achieving a tobacco-free Bangladesh and protecting our future generation by 2040 if the government does not strictly implement the direct and indirect promotion of all kinds of promotion of tobacco companies during this period of research."