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Bangladesh bans smoking in public places. Bangladesh Parliament passed a bill imposing a ban on smoking at public places and in public transports, as well as on advertisement of tobacco products. According to that bill Health and Family Welfare Minister Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain introduced the bill titled "Smoking and Tobacco Usage (control) Act, 2005", which prohibits publication of advertisements of tobacco products in newspapers, books, magazines, radio and television broadcasts, as well as in cinema. In this bill there are an act that imposes Tk. 50 fine on open smoking, but people of Bangladesh are not aware of this act and they are violating the act everyday....
