Speakers at the human chain said, tobacco is not only harmful for health, but also for environment, economy and society. The result of growing tobacco is land shortage for food crop cultivation. Trees are been cutting down for drying tobacco leaf. In the hill tracts, more and more forest are destroying each year and land are using for tobacco cultivation.

Organizers demanded that tobacco cultivation have to be stopped in environmentally-sensitive areas such as the hill tracts, deforestation have to be stopped for making land and drying tobacco. They also demanded that farmers should be motivated for growing alternative food crops than tobacco.