, Sept. 20 -- There is no alternative to strengthening tobacco control law with a view to achieving SDGs, preventing loss of lives and building a tobacco-free generation, experts said at a roundtable in the capital on Saturday.

The roundtable titled "Building a Tobacco-Free Generation: Citizens' Perspectives on Strengthening TC Law", organised jointly by PROGGA (Knowledge for Progress) and Anti-Tobacco Media Alliance (ATMA) was held at CIRDAP Auditorium.

The experts said tobacco works as a major impediment towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Bangladesh.

In particular, tobacco frustrates SDG Target 3.4 which is to reduce premature mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by one-third within 2030, said the sp...