Bangladesh Sent down the Warning Table by Canadian Cancer Society

Source from:  Tobacco Reporter  11/16/2012

The Canadian Cancer Society has relegated Bangladesh to 97th position among 198 countries in introducing graphic health warnings on tobacco packs, according to a story in the New Age.
 
The society announced the ranking on Wednesday at the fifth meeting of the parties of the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in Seoul, South Korea.
 
Bangladesh had ranked 77th in the previous report published in 2010.
 
The society said that Canada was the first country to implement picture warnings in 2001.
 
Bangladesh has a population 4-5 times that of Canadabut a GDP only about one twentieth the size of Canada's. Enditem