Tobacco use a major death contributor in Bangladesh, but lacks policy attention: speakers

Speakers expressed concern over the fact that tobacco use in Bangladesh resulted in more than 1,26,000 deaths in 2018, which is more than four times the number of deaths (29,000) during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021

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