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Campaign against smoking planned
ABU DHABI -The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the UAE Women's Federation, will launch an anti-tobacco campaign at the cost of Dh500,000.
The campaign is scheduled to start around mid-December.
The six-month, anti-smoking drive which targets school children and adolescents, is being organised under the patronage of Her Highness Shaikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Wife of the President and Chairperson of the UAE Women's Federation.
The Ministry of Education and Youth (MoEY) and the Abu Dhabi Educational Zone will also participate in the campaign.
According to Dr Mahmoud Fekri, Assistant Under-Secretary of the Central Preventive Medicine Department at the ministry, the campaign aims at developing effective methods to prevent young people from smoking and assist smokers to quit.
Quoting statistics relased by the World Health Organisation (WHO), he said tobacco consumption claims the life of five million people every year and that the figure is expected to rise to 25 million people by the year 2025.
According to recent scientific findings, cigarette smoking kills half of all those who fall victim to the deadly habit with 50 per cent of these deaths occuring in middle age and damaging the health in over 24 different ways, with lung cancer being the most common.
The campaign will focus on educating youth on the health hazards posed by smoking and training them on the skills required to help their friends and loved ones to fight smoking, which is the principal cause of preventable diseases, disability, and premature death, said Dr Fekri. He said the campaign also aims at reducing the level of exposure of children and adolescents to passive smoking at schools and public utilities and issuing of legislations and laws to ban the selling of tobacco to those who are below 18 years of age.
There are also plans to bring about a ban on advertisements that promote tobacco. Tobacco companies, have, through their advertisements, succeeded in attracting millions of children around the world to the dangerous world of cigarettes.
A number of activities have been lined up on the sidelines of the campaign, including the setting up of a 'Youth Advisory Committee' at the MoEY comprising 20 young people, to develop a new vision to encourage schoolchildren and adolescents to kick the body-sapping, life-taking habit, said Dr Fekri.
Training courses on the health threats posed by smoking, in addition to an anti-tobacco conference, will also be organised as part of the campaign, said Dr Fekri.
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