Death Marketing -2

HD Cigarettes: targeting the youth!

‘HD is what the youth is’: with such message British American Tobacco Bangladesh (BATB) is marketing is new cigarette brand ‘Gold Leaf HD’. The company is promoting the brand aggressively all over the country. Notably, the punishment for advertising tobacco and tobacco products, under the existing law, is a simple imprisonment or a monetary fine not exceeding Tk. 100,000. If the offence is found for a second or third time, the punishment will be doubled or tripled accordingly. Tobacco companies are continuing their advertisements by violating the law and such death marketing must be stopped to protect public health from the destructive clutch of tobacco.