At Goalkanon village in Shailokupa district in Bangladesh 200 people quit smoking. In that area local citizen built a social movement against tobacco by their own interest. The citizens (basically the youth) make a group to make their village an idol village for free of every kinds of addiction. The youth are going door to door and requesting people not to smoke. They launch a slogan for the movement “we are begging you not to smoke; the identification of a smoker is the big brother of the devil.” the local female are also get involve in that movement. There is no involvement of any NGO and other organization in it. The main initiative was taken by Mr. Hasanuzzaman, Principal of Golak Nagar Reg. private primary school. Before the movement there was smoker in number of 500 and now it reduce into 300.



March 31st, 2009 at 10:17 pm
That’s fantastic! Mr. Hasanuzzaman must have done a great job. I hope that movement is sustainable.