Goal & Objectives
Goal: To enforce tobacco control law, increase awareness against tobacco, reduce consumption cultivation of tobacco, protect people from second hand smoke exposure and thereby protect the people of our country from the curse of tobacco.
Objective:
- Coordinate tobacco control activities in Bangladesh on behalf of Health Services Division, MOHFW.
- Facilitate implementation and enforcement of tobacco control law to reduce tobacco use through capacity building of the tobacco control stakeholders.
- Partnership building for tobacco control and mobilization of resources.
- Reduce tobacco consumption, cultivation and production.
- Monitoring of tobacco control law implementation.
- Monitor progress on implementation of the WHO FCTC and MPOWER policy.
- Conduct research and survey on tobacco and its harmful effects.