Tobacco Control and Research Cell (TCRC) of Dhaka International University arranged the discussion on “E-cigarette is a New Threat for the Youth: Ways to Stop Its Use’ at the auditorium of Officers’ Club in Dhaka on Tuesday morning (November 3, 2020). Deputy Speaker of the National Parliament of Bangladesh Advocate Fazle Rabbi Miah, MP, spoke at the event as the chief guest with Barrister Sha...

Standard packaging of tobacco products may be a new possibility for the implementation of tobacco control laws. This packaging could play a key role in reducing the number of tobacco users as well as raising taxes for the National Board of Revenue.The title of the webinar was "Standard Packaging: Challenges and Way to Implementation" which held on Wednesday, September 30, 2020.The Program Organiz...

Almost all the jorda factories in Bangladesh are marketing jorda ignoring the budget for the fiscal year 2020-21. In addition, the budget did not affect the jorda market and vendors as per capita income and inflation did not increase the price. A recent study revealed such information. Read more.. The research results News Paper Links 01. https://www.theholytimes.com/front/viewn...

A two day’s orientation training programs were held on 26th and 27th February 2020. On 26th February, the program was organized for familiar with the project activities and objectives among the project staffs and volunteers. On 27th February, we organized a project orientation and sharing meeting with all leading persons of all BI grantees, high authority of the university, civil society, The Uni...

A discussion meeting on "Tobacco Taxation in the Upcoming Budget" — at National Parliament House.

National Tobacco Control Cell, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and TCRC-DIU jointly organized a meeting on Importance to “Introduce/implementation of Standard Packets for SLT and Bidi”. TCRC able to understand the ministry delegates regarding the importance of Standard Packets and select lowest pack size of 50 gram for Jordha, large present available size of Gul and Filter Bidi pack (As...

Office of the Divisional Commissioner, Dhaka; NTCC, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare; and Tobacco Control and Research Cell (TCRC) of Dhaka International University jointly organized the for Effective Implementation of TC Law by Local Administration. The program was organized on 11 September 2019 where 70 Government high officials including all civil surgeons and additional district ma...

On September 11, 2019 the Dhaka Divisional Workshop was held at the conference room of the office of the Dhaka Divisional Commissioner, entitled "The effective implementation of the Graphic Health Warning on tobacco products." The program was jointly organized by the National Tobacco Control Cell, Health Services Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; office of the  Divisional ...

On July 10, 2019 the Chattagram Divisional Meeting was held at the conference room of the Chittagong Circuit House on "Effective implementation of graphic health warnings on tobacco products." The meeting was jointly organized by National Tobacco Control Cell, Health Services Department, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Chittagong Divisional Commissioner's Office and Tobacco Control and...

Tobacco Control and Research Cell of Dhaka International University conduct a compliance survey on Implementation of Pictorial Warnings on all tobacco products. The team has developed a checklist on the basis of section 10 on Smoking and Tobacco Products Usages (Control) Act 2005 amended in 2013 and also developed software on the basis of the checklist for measuring the compliance of the imp...