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Novartis, in collaboration with ExHealth, is rolling out No Tobacco Campaign 2010, 15th May – 11th August, a three month initiative in UAE to highlight issues of smoking and to implement a tobacco free nation. “With such risk in sight Novartis feels the need to unite efforts in implementing a tobacco free nation as a responsible [...] UAE Minister of Health, Dr. Hanif Hassan, has lauded efforts of the competent authorities, in cooperation with the Ministry in fighting smoking habit, ratifying federal law concerning tobacco control pointing out the cooperation between all relevant authorities in the UAE. He said: “The UAE gives great concern to health policies and works on developing them according [...] The Cabinet will discuss the means of implementing a ban on smoking in public and the places to be included under the decision, according to a top government official. Minister of State for Media Affairs and Communications and Government Spokesperson Nabil Sharif said the Cabinet will also define the stages through which the ban will be [...] In a study conducted by Dr. Haider M Al Attia, Consultant Internal Medicine and Rheumatology at Al Noor Hospital, Airport Road, Abu Dhabi, tested the density of the femur bone in140 predominantly Arab male patients aged 55 years and over – who were attending hospital for the treatment of other conditions – to determine the [...] The Qatar Foundation and Supreme Council of Health (SCH) launched a campaign against smoking, aiming to raise awareness about the dangers of tobacco, in and around Education City. The campaign is organized annually by the World Health Organization and in Qatar by the Supreme Council of Health, began recently in the Liberal Arts and Sciences building [...] The Tobacco Control Unit under the Supreme Council of Health registered an increasing number of violations as part of its campaign against those violating the anti-tobacco law in Qatar. The SCH has imposed fines amounting to a total of QR74,000 on smokers endangering public health, during inspections conducted in several shopping centres across the city since [...] Oman followed suit with other Arab countries and instituted earlier this month regulations on smoking, which will help prevent non-smokers not to suffer from the ill effects of second-hand smoke. Under the new regulations, restaurants, malls and other public places have to allow more than 50 per cent of its space as non-smoking zones, according to [...] The Kingdom registers 200 cases of kidney cancer per year, most of them in the regions of Makkah, Riyadh and the Eastern Province, according to Ashraf Abu Samra of the Saudi Urological Society. Speaking on the sidelines of the recent Saudi Conference on Urological Tumors in Sharm Al-Sheikh in Egypt, Abu Samra [...] According to a pulmonologist, the quick pace of ’modernization’ of the Arab community is responsible for the rise in the number of cases of asthma reported in the Gulf region. A survey made by the Asthma Insights and Reality in the Gulf and Near East (AIRGNE) of Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman and the UAE last year [...] |
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