Tobacco Company using hawkers to market tobacco products

The hawker who roams around streets of Dhaka city is promoting Java Black, a new cigarette brand, to catch the attention of smokers. The hawkers told that the companies are providing these nice looking boxes at free of cost. This promotion is going on to catch the eyes of public and attract them become addictive to smoking.
Java black cigarette company is defying the ban on advertisement of tobacco products and promoting their product in public places with nicely decorated boxes inbuilt with java black brand.
According to country’s amended tobacco control law , any form of tobacco products advertisement is prohibited and have provision of imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or a fine which may extend to 100000 take or both, and if the person contravenes the provisions more than once, every time the amount of fine or punishment shall be doubled.

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