A human chain was organized to end of tobacco cultivation in environmentally-sensitive areas such as hill tracts. The demand was made by the Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance and Pratyasha. The human chain took place at Shahbagh, Dhaka in front of the National Museum on 21 March 2009 at 11 a.m.

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.