Policy to be adapted to ban bidi: Muhith

Muhith 2Finance Minister AMA Muhith has said the government will adopt a policy to ban bidi as a harmful product for the human body.
After a meeting with the top tobacco companies, including British American Tobacco (BAT), at the Finance Ministry office in Dhaka, he told journalists, “Eighty percent of products in country’s tobacco market are of low price and low quality. Of those, bidi is very much harmful to health.”
Speaking of the demands of the tobacco companies to control the low-quality bidi, Muhith said both sides were talking about controlling the low price bidi.

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