Saudi Arabia: Ramadan Provides ‘Ideal Break’ To Give Up Smoking

With Muslim smokers refraining from smoking during daylight hours this month, a number of health experts and officials say that Ramadan is the perfect opportunity to give up smoking. According to Dr. Abdullah Al-Baddah, director of the Tobacco Control Department at the Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia ranks 23 worldwide in terms of smokers in population per capita. Each year Saudi Arabia consume as many as 15 billion cigarettes and inhale 40,000 tons of tobacco smoke. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Smoking / Quit Smoking on September 20th, 2007