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Twenty three (23) Social Organizations in Kathmandu, Nepal have requested the Government to ban importing and selling tobacco contain products during the COVID-19 pandemic . This letter has been handed over to the Prime Minister of Nepal on 10th May 2020(Sunday) through the ministry of Health and ... [read more]
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In Bangladesh 20 anti-tobacco organizations and 100 eminent citizens of the country has sent a letter addressed to the Hon. Prime Minister on 9th May 2020, calling for a temporary ban on the marketing and sale of all tobacco products during the Covid-19 pandemic. The letter has urged the governme... [read more]
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World Health Organization (WHO) has declared every year 31st of May as the World No Tobacco Day (WNTD). This year The World No Tobacco Day focuses on “Protecting youth from industry manipulation and preventing them from tobacco and nicotine use”, as youth is a main target of the tobacco industry in ... [read more]
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A letter was sent to HE the president Gotabaya Rajapaksa from the stakeholders of tobacco control and public health in Sri Lanka requesting to ban tobacco sales during the COVID-19 Epidemic. Centre for Combating Tobacco wishes to express our gratitude for all people friendly organizations that accep... [read more]
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Alcohol weakens the immune system thus increasing the risk of contacting infectious diseases. World Health Organization strongly recommended avoiding alcohol use to protect one’s own immune system and health as well as the health of others especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Alcohol consumption... [read more]
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South Asian Regional Consortium Centre for Combating Tobacco (SARC-CCT) Fellowship program was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka from 10th to 21st February 2020 with the participation of fellows nominated from all 8 South Asian Countries.
This fellowship program was coordinated by the Centre for Combating... [read more]
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Grameenphone, the largest telecom company of Bangladesh, has removed a misleading e-cigarette COVID-19 ‘awareness’ post from its Facebook page as a successful outcome of a recent Public Health Alert issued by PROGGA and subsequent campaign from other stakeholders.
On 10 April 2020, Grameenphone p... [read more]
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Centre for Combating Tobacco (CCT) hosted by the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, is the tobacco observatory in Sri Lanka with a mandate to monitor tobacco industry interference and implementation of the Article 5.3 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), in the South A... [read more]
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PROGGA has successfully launched the 2019 Bangladesh Tobacco Industry Interference Index: Report on Implementation of FCTC Article 5.3 at the CIRDAP Auditorium, Dhaka on 23 October 2019. The report reveals that Bangladesh is among the worst three (03) countries that face the highest level of tobacco... [read more]
![Harmful effects of the decision taken to permit the liquor stores to reopen when the curfew is lifted on 20 April during the COVID-19 pandemic [Post updated on 21 April 2020]](http://www.sarccct.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/excise-dept-540x300.png)
