Dhaka, Nov. 19 -- Speakers at a city workshop urged for taking strong measures immediately to reduce tobacco use for achieving the Prime Minister's declaration of a tobacco free Bangladesh by 2040.

They said that a strong tobacco control law and its effective implementations are highly required in this regard following the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO).

So far, no concrete steps are visible in spite of the words of the Prime Minister at the closing ceremony of the South Asian Speaker's Summit in 2016 to amend tobacco control law in accordance to FCTC.

The existing tobacco control law is failing to reduce tobacco use efficiently, the speakers stated.

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