As many as 118 countries around the world, including Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, have banned the sale of small packets and single cigarette sticks.

Anti-tobacco platforms have demanded that the government introduce stricter tobacco control laws and ban sales of bidi and cigarette sticks in pieces.

Progga (Knowledge for Progress) and Anti-Tobacco Media Alliance (Atma) organised a webinar on the necessity of tobacco control laws in Bangladesh on Saturday to update the current tobacco control laws.

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