, Feb. 5 -- Speakers at a journalists' workshop on Wednesday called for greater efforts to uncover the deceptive tactics of the tobacco industry, emphasizing the need to protect public health.

A total of 51 journalists from print, television and online media houses participated in two workshops organized by research and advocacy organization PROGGA (Knowledge for Progress) and Anti-Tobacco Media Alliance (ATMA) at BMA Bhaban in the capital.

They said though tobacco use claims 161,000 lives each year in Bangladesh, tobacco companies never take responsibility for such a huge loss of lives caused by their products.

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