Tobacco
How many people in Bangladesh smoke, or have raw tobacco with beetle leaves, as their everyday item to satisfy themselves, is unknown to me, but lately I have learned from a television advertisement that each year, at least 57,000 Bangladeshis are dying every year due to smoking. Still there is no information about the death of raw tobacco users.
The advertisement was proclaiming that hundreds of thousands of people were also suffering from different type of diseases due to smoking.
They also announced in that advertisement that more tax should be imposed upon bidi (the local product sans filter). But, they didn't state that bidi is even more dangerous and should be banned.
The authorities who produced the advertisement and brought that to be aired, should be cautious about airing any advertisement like this. Because, indeed, they are not discouraging people to smoke.
They perhaps have a good intention since they are trying to collect more tax from people, but should also care that no product should cause any harm to human beings.
If they added in that advertisement that bidi is more dangerous and should be avoided, then, as a matter of fact, the whole sense would have been positive.
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