Smoking despite warning is foolish, say speakers

Speakers at a seminar on Sunday said people who continue to smoke despite widespread health warnings are foolish as they lack ability to distinguish between right and wrong.

Such people are incapable of distinguishing right from wrong, they opined at a divisional-level anti-tobacco seminar in the conference room of the Rajshahi Divisional Commissioner’s office , reports BSS.
Rajshahi Divisional Commissioner’s office organised the seminar in collaboration with the National Tobacco Control Cell under the Health Services Division, as part of the tobacco control programme.

Additional Divisional Commissioner Rezaul Alam Sarkar addressed the seminar as chief guests, while Additional Divisional Commissioner Habibur Rahman was in the chair.

The keynote paper was presented by the Divisional Director of Health, Dr. Md. Habibur Rahman.
Rezaul Alam said there is no good side to smoking; it has only harmful effects.

Smokers suffer harm, and non-smokers are also put at health risk through secondhand smoke.
He urged smokers to quit the habit immediately and called on everyone to raise awareness to keep the next generations tobacco-free.

In the keynote, Dr. Habibur Rahman stated that the tobacco use rate among adult men in the country is about 36 percent.