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Elderly Bangladeshi woman Zahura Begum sits on a bed in The Bangladesh's National Hospital for Chest Diseases in Dhaka. (Photo courtesy: AFP)
Elderly Bangladeshi woman Zahura Begum sits on a bed in The Bangladesh's National Hospital for Chest Diseases in Dhaka. (Photo courtesy: AFP)
DHAKA, April 29 (AFP) - Bangladeshi chest doctor Kazi Saifuddin Bennoor has seen many misleading cigarette advertisements, but the one that suggested smoking could make childbirth easier plumbed new depths.
Advertisements telling smokers they are smarter, more energetic and better lovers than their non-smoking counterparts are a familiar sight across Bangladesh -- something unimaginable in most other countries.
One in a rural area, Bennoor remembers, said that "if a lady smokes, her baby will be smaller and it will be easier to deliver, the labour will be less painful".
"These are very ruthless advertisements," said Saifuddin, an associate professor at Bangladesh's National Hospital for Chest Diseases.
The promotion is being linked to an alarming rise in tobacco use in the impoverished South Asian country, particularly among women and the young -- a trend repeated across many developing countries, anti-tobacco groups say.
The World Health Organisation warns that tobacco companies are targeting women in developing countries as a new growth market and Dhaka-based doctors treating lung diseases report they are seeing more female patients.
Around 28 percent of adult Bangladeshi women now use tobacco, according to the latest WHO survey, and 43 percent of the adult population -- or 41 million people -- use tobacco in some form, up from 37 percent in 2004.
"(Tobacco use) has become an epidemic among rural women. It's a very serious health issue," a government advisor on health, Syed Mudasser Ali, told AFP, adding that anti-smoking laws were poorly enforced.
Tobacco advertising was banned in Bangladesh in 2005, so the advertisements are usually fly-posters that do not specify the company behind the message.
"Only a negligible number of people have been fined for breaching tobacco laws over the last few years," Ali said.
Officially 57,000 people die in Bangladesh of tobacco use annually, but that figure was likely a "huge underestimate".
The country fits a pattern emerging across the region of rising rates of female tobacco use, particularly in Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines and Cambodia.
This rise is largely because more Asian women are entering the workforce, have disposable income and see smoking as "modern and liberated," said doctor Mary Assunta, director of the International Tobacco Control Project.
"I've seen tobacco companies' marketing campaigns on my university campus and in residential dormitories," said one 25-year-old Bangladeshi female smoker who used to smoke a pack a day but is trying to quit on her doctor's advice.
"They approach students with a questionnaire and ask them to fill it in to win T-shirts or lighters," she said, adding that she started smoking as her friends in class at Dhaka University all smoked.
Tobacco companies are encouraging the trend, viewing women in developing countries as their "largest unexploited market", according to the WHO -- which has chosen the theme of tobacco marketing to women for 2010 No Tobacco Day on May 31.
"We see clear marketing strategies targeting women in Asia such as lipstick-type cigarette packs in Indonesia, Malaysia and Laos," said Assunta.
The pretty, small packets of ultra-thin cigarettes are designed to be something a woman would like to carry around with her at all times, just like her favourite lipstick.
"These fit easily into women's purses. Cigarette packs are coloured pink and there are even fruit flavoured cigarettes," Assunta said.
Tobacco companies in Bangladesh contacted by AFP all denied using illegal fly-posters or point of sales marketing, which the ministry of health hoped to stop with an amended version of the 2005 law.
The market is dominated by volume leader Dhaka Tobacco, which has a 40-percent share and monopolises low-end sales.
British American Tobacco, which makes the popular Pall Mall and John Player Gold Leaf cigarettes, dominates the 140 million dollar premium tobacco market with its Benson and Hedges brand.
"BAT Bangladesh markets cigarettes in Bangladesh in full compliance of all applicable laws, rules, and regulations," company spokesman Shamim Zahedy told AFP, adding that their marketing only targeted existing smokers.
In February, WHO chief Margaret Chan said that developing countries were the "new frontier" for tobacco marketing.
"If Big Tobacco is in retreat in some parts of the world, it is on the march in others," she said in a speech on the fifth anniversary of an international convention on tobacco control.
"In these countries as elsewhere, girls and women are a market with attractive and lucrative growth potential, and they are likewise being targeted," Chan said.
In developed countries, tobacco companies have seen their marketing restricted or banned and sales are falling as public health campaigns and tight rules on smoking in public places hit profits.
As a result, developing markets are becoming "increasingly important" for transnational companies such as BAT and Philip Morris International -- which is aggressively expanding in the Philippines and Indonesia, said Assunta.
"Tobacco companies are definitely putting effort into consolidating their positions in low income countries," she said.
Even Bangladesh, where nearly 40 percent of the population of 144 million lives on less than a dollar a day, is a lucrative tobacco market, with annual sales estimated at around one billion dollars.
In Bangladesh's remote, rural areas, the health risks of tobacco use are not always well known, Bennoor said, making poor farmers -- particularly women who are generally less well educated -- an easy target.
"It is a vicious cycle: people who are poor are more vulnerable to tobacco addiction, and then they are smoking, and it makes them poorer," he said.
For Bangladesh's rural poor, approximately 4.5 percent of household expenditure goes on tobacco, according to WHO estimates.
In some areas, there have been signs of a fightback against the advertising, however.
At Dhaka University, one fly-poster claiming "smoking makes you smarter and more manly" prompted a student-run counter-campaign.
"We are smart and we don't smoke," said handmade posters plastered over the original adverts on the university's city-center campus. (By Cat Barton/ AFP)
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With reports of at one alleged suspect of war crimes Mir Kashim Ali leaving the country, the Prime Minister's Adviser HT Imam said yesterday that "despite their apparent escape", they would not be able to evade capture for long.
His comments came after several newspapers reported yesterday that Mir Kashim, Jamaat executive committee member and Director of Islami Bank, left the country on Mar 24. His apparent getaway raised many eyebrows following recent utterances of several senior government leaders including Home Minister Sahara Khatun, who said that nobody accused of committing war crimes would be allowed to leave the country.
News reports said, Kashim was not only allowed to leave the country but he was also given the VIP room at the airport, where he waited in the morning to catch a Qatar Airways flight to Saudi Arabia via Dubai. The government is said to be investigating as to how he escaped, but one news report said that the airport Immigration let him go because he was not on the "no flight list". The disclosure yesterday about Kashim's escape and his use of VIP room have come as a big embarrassment for the government of Sheikh Hasina, who vowed on Saturday that no "branded war criminals" would be spared and their "thousands of crores of taka" would not help them.
In an apparent exercise in damage control, her Adviser Imam said, "The world has become very small now. Even if war criminals escape to other countries, they won't be able to get away. The Government will make them face trials". He also said that there are no international pressures to stop the trials, apparently to dampen speculation that some power countries including Saudi Arabia and the United States are asking the government not to proceed further on the matter.
The Adviser, however, expressed fears that the trials might be sabotaged, saying, "The war criminals have made a lot of money from profitable businesses like banks, insurance companies, educational institutions and media. They are trying to thwart the trials with this wealth." Responding to a query about plans to confiscate wealth of war criminals and their financial sources, he said "It cannot be disclosed publicly."
The Adviser also said that the alleged war criminals have been involved in other crimes including the BDR mutiny. He was talking at a three-day seminar titled "Governance Reform through ICT application" at Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre. Representatives from 12 countries including US, UK, Australia and Japan are participating in the seminar.
-New Nation
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দেশের মিডিয়া আর জনগণের আলোচনার নতুন ক্রেজ "কাশেম মামা"। উনি অবশ্য ফিরে আসবেন বলেছেন। সৌদি বাবাদের দরবারে হাজিরা দিয়ে, আর্জি পেশ করে আর খয়রাত নিয়েই হয়তো ফিরবেন।
জামাত এর আন্তজার্তিক নেটওয়ার্ক বেশ সক্রিয় এখন। পায়ের নিচের মাটি মনে হয় একটু নড়েছে।
সঠিক সময়ে সঠিক বিচার হবেতো? নাকি আগমী নির্বাচনের আগ পর্যন্ত ধারাবাহিক নাটক চলবে... আর বিচার শেষ করতে আরো ৫ বছরের আর্জি জানাবে আপা হাসিনা?
BAL administration is now going to do trial against the criminal of humanity & human right done 1971 For doing lawful trial against any criminals of humanity & human right Lawful honest truth is needed in speaking & writing by the BAL politicians & BAL supporters. Mr. Samor DAS may be BAL supporter & by born is low class near to untouchable Hindu so he might not understand what the meaning of the word which is written by him. He should learn to know that in democratic system election only one can win & others fail that does not mean that they are culprit.. --- On Tue, 27/4/10, siraj uddowllah <siraj_58@hotmail.com> wrote:
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This is a partial list of some of the leading Muslims. Major Muslim contributions continued beyond the fifteenth century. Contributions of more than one hundred other major Muslim personalities can be found in several famous publications by Western historians. Biographies are available in the Islamic Civilization E-book. | ||
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Jabir Ibn Haiyan (Geber) | Chemistry (Father of Chemistry) | Died 803 C.E. |
Al-Asmai | Zoology, Botany, Animal Husbandry. | 740 - 828 |
Al-Khwarizmi (Algorizm) | Mathematics, Astronomy, Geography. (Algorithm, Algebra, calculus) | 770 - 840 |
'Amr ibn Bahr Al-Jahiz | Zoology, Arabic Grammar, Rhetoric, Lexicography | 776 - 868 |
Ibn Ishaq Al-Kindi (Alkindus) | Philosophy, Physics, Optics, Medicine, Mathematics, Metallurgy. | 800 - 873 |
Thabit Ibn Qurrah (Thebit) | Astronomy, Mechanics, Geometry, Anatomy. | 836 - 901 |
'Abbas Ibn Firnas | Mechanics of Flight, Planetarium, Artificial Crystals. | Died 888 |
Ali Ibn Rabban Al-Tabari | Medicine, Mathematics, Caligraphy, Literature. | 838 - 870 |
Al-Battani (Albategnius) | Astronomy, mathematics, Trigonometry. | 858 - 929 |
Al-Farghani (Al-Fraganus) | Astronomy, Civil Engineering. | C. 860 |
Al-Razi (Rhazes) | Medicine, Ophthalmology, Smallpox, Chemistry, Astronomy. | 864 - 930 |
Al-Farabi (Al-Pharabius) | Sociology, Logic, Philosophy, Political Science, Music. | 870 - 950 |
Abul Hasan Ali Al-Masu'di | Geography, History. | Died 957 |
Al-Sufi (Azophi) | Astronomy | 903 - 986 |
Abu Al-Qasim Al-Zahravi (Albucasis) | Surgery, Medicine. (Father of Modern Surgery) | 936 - 1013 |
Muhammad Al-Buzjani | Mathematics, Astronomy, Geometry, Trigonometry. | 940 - 997 |
Ibn Al-Haitham (Alhazen) | Physics, Optics, Mathematics. | 965 - 1040 |
Al-Mawardi (Alboacen) | Political Science, Sociology, Jurisprudence, Ethics. | 972 - 1058 |
Abu Raihan Al-Biruni | Astronomy, Mathematics. (Determined Earth's Circumference) | 973-1048 |
Ibn Sina (Avicenna) | Medicine, Philosophy, Mathematics, Astronomy. | 981 - 1037 |
Al-Zarqali (Arzachel) | Astronomy (Invented Astrolabe). | 1028 - 1087 |
Omar Al-Khayyam | Mathematics, Poetry. | 1044 - 1123 |
Al-Ghazali (Algazel) | Sociology, Theology, Philosophy. | 1058 - 1111 |
Fall of Muslim Toledo (1085), Corsica and Malta (1090), Provence (1050), Sicily (1091) and Jerusalem (1099). Several Crusades. First wave of devastation of Muslim resources, lives, properties, institutions, and infrastructure over a period of one hundred years. Refer to Muslim History. Translators of Scientific Knowledge in the Middle Ages | ||
Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Yahya (Ibn Bajjah) | Philosophy, Medicine, Mathematics, Astronomy, Poetry, Music. | 1106 - 1138 |
Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar) | Surgery, Medicine. | 1091 - 1161 |
Al-Idrisi (Dreses) | Geography (World Map, First Globe). | 1099 - 1166 |
Ibn Tufayl, Abdubacer | Philosophy, Medicine, Poetry. | 1110 - 1185 |
Ibn Rushd (Averroes) | Philosophy, Law, Medicine, Astronomy, Theology. | 1128 - 1198 |
Al-Bitruji (Alpetragius) | Astronomy | Died 1204 |
Second wave of devastation of Muslim resources, lives, properties, institutions, and infrastructure over a period of one hundred and twelve years. Crusader invasions (1217-1291) and Mongol invasions (1219-1329). Crusaders active throughout the Mediterranean from Jerusalem and west to Muslim Spain. Fall of Muslim Cordoba (1236), Valencia (1238) and Seville (1248). Mongols devastation from the eastern most Muslim frontier, Central and Western Asia, India, Persia to Arab heartland. Fall of Baghdad (1258) and the end of Abbasid Caliphate. Two million Muslims massacred in Baghdad. Major scientific institutions, laboratories, and infrastructure destroyed in leading Muslim centers of civilization. Refer to "A Chronology of Muslim History Parts III, IV." | ||
Pharmacy, Botany | Died 1248 | |
Nasir Al-Din Al-Tusi | Astronomy, Non-Euclidean Geometry. | 1201 - 1274 |
Jalal Al-Din Rumi | Sociology | 1207 - 1273 |
Ibn Al-Nafis Damishqui | Anatomy | 1213 - 1288 |
Al-Fida (Abdulfeda) | Astronomy, Geography, Histrory. | 1273 - 1331 |
Muhammad Ibn Abdullah (Ibn Battuta) | World Traveler. 75,000 mile voyage from Morocco to China and back. | 1304 - 1369 |
Ibn Khaldun | Sociology, Philosophy of History, Political Science. | 1332 - 1395 |
Ulugh Beg | Astronomy | 1393 - 1449 |
Third wave of devastation of Muslim resources, lives, properties, institutions, and infrastructure. End of Muslim rule in Spain (1492). More than one million volumes of Muslim works on science, arts, philosophy and culture was burnt in the public square of Vivarrambla in Granada. Colonization began in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Refer to "A Chronology of Muslim History Parts IV, V (e.g., 1455, 1494, 1500, 1510, 1524, and 1538)" | ||
Two hundred years before a comparable development elsewhere, Turkish scientist Hazarfen Ahmet Celebi took off from Galata tower and flew over the Bosphorus. Logari Hasan Celebi, another member of the Celebi family, sent the first manned rocket, using 150 okka (about 300 pounds) of gunpowder as the firing fuel. | ||
Tipu, Sultan of Mysore [1783-1799] in the south of India, was the innovator of the world's first war rocket. Two of his rockets, captured by the British at Srirangapatana, are displayed in the Woolwich Museum Artillery in London. The rocket motor casing was made of steel with multiple nozzles. The rocket, 50mm in diameter and 250mm long, had a range performance of 900 meters to 1.5 km. |
For doing lawful trial against any corruption works for humanity & human right Lawful honest truth is needed in speaking & writing. Bangladesh Independent Day is on 26 March not on 25 March that in 1971 on 26 March Independent of --- On Tue, 20/4/10, Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com> wrote:
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Fifteen teachers of Rajshahi University expressed deep concern over the "criminal activities" of Bangladesh Chhatra League at the educational institutions and urged the government to take immediate steps in this regard.
Referring to the recent call of five other noted educationists who have urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to cut all relations with BCL, the RU teachers said the call has been made in time.
In a joint statement issued yesterday the teachers said, expressing words like "concern, apprehension and despair" is not enough to describe the reality of the educational institutions. The anarchic situation, which prevails at the institutions, is also being infiltrated into the state activities like an incurable disease, it added.
They termed this situation destructive to the state and society.
The signatories are Hasan Azizul Haque, Sanat Kumar Saha, Zulfikar Matin, Mokhlesur Rahman, Shah Newaj Ali, Moloy Bhowmik, Abdul Mazid, Mahbubur Rahman, Jalal Uddin, Chhitta Ranjan Misra, SM Abu Bakar, Ananda Kumar Saha, Sujit Sarker, Shamsuddin Illias and Hasibul Alam Prodhan.
Pointing out the PM's remark that all achievements of the nation would not go in vein for BCL, it said the government must take stern actions against the criminal activities of other organisations.
They demanded elections of students' unions immediately to create atmosphere of student politics at the educational institutions.
Talking to The Daily Star in the afternoon, eminent littérateur Hasan Azizul Haque said, "We [signatories] are not against student politics."
Achievements of student politics in the past will never be ignored in the history but the wrongdoings in the name of student politics cannot be accepted, he said.
Referring to the role of student politics in building the nation, he demanded restoration of healthy culture in student politics.
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--- In chottala@yahoogroups.com, Sirajul Haider <sirajulhaider@...> wrote:
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> Hi Samor,
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> It is obvious that you will support BAL. But the real fact is totally different. It was one of the worst vote rigging in the history of Bhola, just ask any Bhola dwellers and the fact will come out. So please stop your propaganda.
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> From: Samor Das <samordasbd@...>
> To: notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com; odhora@yahoogroups.com; chottala@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:03:18
> Subject: [chottala.com] RESULT OF VOLA NIRBACHON//WHERE ARE THOSE BNP?
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> Awami Leage got almost double the vote than BNP.
> >Where are those culprits Hafiz and BNP gongs today?
> >Check the total result here:
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> >www.rtnn.net
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> >Thanks
> >Samor Das
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Real & original AL was dead in 1971. The Present A L in the formation of BA L is the party of hijackerloot looters chapabaj & knowledge fewer talkers & false speakers. BCL is the cadres bahini of BAL party for doing looting works killing works hijacking works for the BAL leaders by The blessing of BAL party & of the BAL looters & BAL chaters. If Mr Sheik Mujib would now alive he could drive red horseby forming BKSAL on the chatters. looter & hijackers Who can now do to driving works against the BAL corruption? Can do driving against the BAL Hijackars & corruption his daughter Madam Sheik Hassina? Wait & see. --- On Mon, 26/4/10, Mounota <nistabdhota@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
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