Bangladesh Anti-smoking people calling for an increase in the cigarette tax to reduce mortality

Tobacco online Bangladesh, activists called for the Government to raise tobacco taxes to reduce smoking, especially the rising number of deaths of non-communicable diseases caused by smoking cheap bidis, bidis made by the tobacco tablets, usually rolling of the leaves is made. "It is necessary to raise cigarette taxes to reduce tobacco consumption, because any form of tobacco - bidis, cigarettes or smokeless tobacco (snuff or chewing tobacco, tobacco products) - can be fatal health hazards, and poor consumption of bidis than the amount of the cigarette factory, "the NGO" Tobacco Free Youth Sports Rajika Jayatilake, vice president.


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 Governmental organizations Global Adult Tobacco Survey report shows that in 2009, Bangladesh more than 40% of adults smoking, 11% of adults suck "bidis", which is very popular in rural areas, a pre- packaging of cigarettes alternatives. According to the results of a 2012 study published by the prevention of tuberculosis and lung disease, League of Nations in Paris, during 1997-2010, bidi smoking rates rose more than 80%, while over the same period of cigarette smoking rate overall has increased by about 40%.

The researchers said that in Bangladesh, tobacco use is rising, mainly because the country's implementation of the tobacco tax, and rolling bidi raw materials cheaper, making the price of bidis is more expensive than any other cigarette. 4 bidi price of one taka, or 1 cent, installed in a pack of 25 cigarettes to spend at least 7 cents. The results showed that higher than for Di tobaccosmoking taxes would fall to 3.4 million adult smokers quit smoking bidis, and prevention of 3.5 million young people start smoking bidis. Tobacco use in Bangladesh every year nearly 5.7 million deaths and 38.2 million people become disabled. Jayatilake said, not just smoking, and even fatal to the working environment in the production of bidi factories.

More than "the harm the health of workers engaged in beedi work than bidi bidi smokers - men, women and even children in difficult to accept the conditions and harmful environmental roll bidis. According to the Bangladesh study conducted by the consumption and production of bidis displayed by the Tobacco Free Youth Sports in April 2012, an estimated 220,000 people work in the bidi cigarette factory - including unpaid women and children - they are continually exposed to tobacco dust and other toxic chemicals in the environment.

Cough, chest pain, vomiting and headache is a common disease of the beedi workers. The health services director, said 60 percent of Bangladesh's death and non-communicable diseases, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases and cancer. Changes in eating habits and lifestyle, tobacco use, indoor air pollution, and lack of health awareness are factors that lead to these diseases.

"We must make everyone understand that non-communicable diseases are widespread. And maternal mortality, mortality caused by non-communicable diseases is equally serious," the deputy program manager of non-communicable diseases and health services The Department is responsible for arsenic AKM Jafar Ullah said. The survey conducted by the World Health Organization in 2011 pointed out that in 2008, 648 women per 100,000 died from non-communicable diseases - is 2010 per 100,000 live births in the maternal mortality rate of 194 three times.