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Anti-tobacco campaign targets women smokers 

AN ANTI-SMOKING campaign has been launched to tackle the rising number of female smokers in Bahrain.

According to the Ministry of Health's statistics, 11.9 per cent of females in the age group of 15 to 18 years are smokers. A total of 7.1 per cent of adult women are also found to be smokers. Around 43 per cent of total population are addicted to tobacco.

Launched recently by the Bahrain Anti-Smoking Society, ‘Women Say No for Smoking’ campaign has many partners and is supported financially by the NGOS' Fund at the Ministry of Social Development.

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Public smoking ban afoot 

Carefree smokers will soon be forced to light up their "cancer sticks" in the privacy of their own homes, as the government is on a drive to crackdown on smoking in public places.

Health officials are now in the process of drafting legislation that will ensure that non-smokers are not subjected to scary illnesses that could develop due to second hand smoking.

Delivering the keynote address at the First Annual Public Exhibition: "Towards a Smoke Free Bahamas," Minister of Health and National Insurance, Bernard Nottage, insisted that his ministry is committed to promoting a smoke-free Bahamas.

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Public smoking ban afoot 

Carefree smokers will soon be forced to light up their "cancer sticks" in the privacy of their own homes, as the government is on a drive to crackdown on smoking in public places.

Health officials are now in the process of drafting legislation that will ensure that non-smokers are not subjected to scary illnesses that could develop due to second hand smoking.

Delivering the keynote address at the First Annual Public Exhibition: "Towards a Smoke Free Bahamas," Minister of Health and National Insurance, Bernard Nottage, insisted that his ministry is committed to promoting a smoke-free Bahamas.

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Smoke Alarm 

In fact, being a non-smoker in The Bahamas can seriously damage your health. So what can be done to avoid that smoker's cough, even though you have never picked up a cigarette in your life?

Well, the United States Surgeon-General Richard Carmona said last week that the only way to control second-hand smoking is to ban it from all public places. . . .

To put the smoking dilemma into a regional context, The Bahamas is not the only Caribbean country facing the problem. Jamaica is developing legislation on tobacco control in keeping with its commitments under the 2003 WHO Framework Convention.

Knox E. Hagley, Chairman of Jamaica Coalition for Tobacco Control, told The Gleaner in 2004, that "large population-based control studies have demonstrated increased risks of about 20 per cent for developing lung cancer among non-smokers, who have had prolonged exposure to cigarette smoke."

He added: "Indeed, the development of heart disease and other smoking-related diseases among such people led to the conclusion that passive smoking is a public health hazard." . . .

Cigarette companies don't see it that way. The Carreras Group, the major tobacco producer in Jamaica, believes that "claims made against environmental smoke were overstated."

The company added: "[We do not] believe that passive smoking had been shown to cause chronic diseases such as lung cancer or cardio-vascular disease."

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Rolling in The Bahamas – The Graycliff Cigar Company Factory Tour 

Get ready to roll, a tour of the Graycliff Cigar factory is a must when in the Bahamas! Open to the public by appointment, with no charge for admission, The Graycliff Cigar Company in Nassau welcomes visitors to take their factory tour and experience the age-old art and tradition of hand cigar rolling

One of the most fascinating destinations in Old Nassau, Graycliff Cigar Company is located on the grounds of the historic Graycliff resort,

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The 'killer' who sits beside you! 

If your company allows smoking in the office or you work in the hospitality business, there's often little you can do about it except find another job.

Many non-smokers may find others lighting up in their workplace an irritation, but few realise how much it can damage their health.

Although there's no doubt that puffing away on a cigarette is deadlier than simply breathing in the smoke in the air, anti-smoking campaigner Dr Babu Ramachandran says that passive smokers still receive about 50 to 60 per cent of the negative effects. . . .

"It should be done step by step," observed Dr Ramachandran.

"First ban smoking in the workplace, then restrict the time people can go out to smoke, then totally ban smoking inside and outside the building.

"After that you can ban smoking in public places, even at bus stops.

"This is already being implemented in India."

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Smoking ban law 'flouted' 

A CALL went out yesterday to reactivate a law which bans smoking in government offices.

Muharraq Municipal Council legislative and financial affairs committee chairman Majeed Karimi said an Amiri Decree banning smoking in government offices issued by the late Amir Shaikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa in 1994, was still not implemented in many government establishments.

"Government employees are continuing to smoke without taking the feelings of others into consideration," he said.

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PRESS RELEASE: Rolling in The Bahamas The Graycliff Cigar Company Factory Tour 

Get ready to roll, a tour of the Graycliff Cigar factory is a must when in the Bahamas! Open to the public by appointment, with no charge for admission, The Graycliff Cigar Company in Nassau welcomes visitors to take their factory tour and experience the age-old art and tradition of hand cigar rolling.

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Cigars featured as 'Ultimate Gift' in luxury magazine 

The "Robb Report" is comprehensive magazine featuring information on a wide variety of luxury products and services and is recognized worldwide as the authority and trendsetter in the luxury industry. . . .

So what does all of this have to do with Graycliff's cigars? Well, its cigars have been advertised as being among the finest in the world in the magazine. It referred to them as one of its "21 ultimate gifts". The Robb Report's article on the cigars appears on page 101 of its Dec. 2003 issue.

Graycliff owner Enrico Garzaroli, in an interview with The Guardian said that he was extremely excited about the article pointing out that he would continue to work hard to ensure that all facets of his resort, the hotel, restaurant and cigar company remain top-notch and unsurpassed by similar services offered at five-star resorts around the world.

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LETTER: Anti-smoking group? 

Government urged to sign tobacco control treaty, BAHRAIN TRIBUNE [Source: WorldSources Online] 

Bahrain's leading anti-smoking campaigner has urged the government to take steps urgently to sign and ratify the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) as quickly as possible to prevent a further loss of lives from tobacco-related diseases, writes Mandeep Singh.

Chamber of Deputies member and former deputy head of health education at the Ministry of Health Dr Salah Ali, who has been at the forefront of the anti-smoking campaign in Bahrain for the last several years, commented that the success of the FCTC as a tool for public health will depend on the energy and political commitment that countries devote to implementing it in the next few years. ``The result will be global public-health gains for all.

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Consumers fight back over inhaling 'passive smoke' before exhaling 

Bahamian consumers have finally decided to fight back over inhaling 'passive smoke' before their life is exhaled from the ill effect of this health risk.

Given the rate of cancer deaths in our country, it is high time the consumer movement enhances the social dialogue about smoke and cigarette smoking in the work place. In 1998 the total number of individuals admitted to the Princess Margaret Hospital for cancer stood at 330. This may appear as a small amount, but we have a small population. Although, not all of these were related to lung cancer the most commonly associated with smoking there were 25 cases of lung cancer admitted to the PMH in the same year.

However, not only cigarette smoking can lead to cancer, but also non-smokers inhaling the smoke exhaled by an addict of tobacco. In fact, the tobacco industry is the only industry that kills one third of its clients. In an article by Samuel Gremial he argues that it is beyond doubt that, from a medical point of view, smoke addiction is a social scourge. But what can be done to ensure the peaceful coexistence of smokers and non-smokers at the workplace, where many people spend at least half of their waking time?

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Mall event lined up 

THE Health Ministry's Anti-Smoking Committee will mark international No Tobacco Day at the Magic Island, Seef Mall, tomorrow.

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Puff piggyback 

ITC’s cigarette volumes grew 4.1 per cent last fiscal, which not only reversed the negative trend seen in the past few years, but also was at the higher end of market expectations.

Coupled with a 4-5 per cent increase in prices, this resulted in a 9.3 per cent increase in revenues for the cigarettes business last fiscal. According to a company release, the growth in revenues was aided by an improvement in product mix.

This seems to also be the reason the company managed an 85 basis points rise in EBIT margins in the cigarettes business. Indeed, the mainstay cigarettes business delivered for the company last fiscal, accounting for over 60 per cent of incremental revenues last fiscal.

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Bahrain Grand Prix to 'rake in millions' 

THE financial benefit from staging a Formula One Grand Prix is expected to run into tens of millions of dollars every year.

A top official from the FIA - Formula One's governing body - says it will be the equivalent of Bahrain staging an Olympic Games annually.

He says it is impossible to accurately predict revenues from staging a Grand Prix, but says the impact on Bahrain's economy will be massive. . .

Mr Donnelly says the impact of Formula One can be clearly seen in Belgium, which was recently withdrawn from the race calendar.

The Belgian Grand Prix was cancelled after the government changed its laws on tobacco advertising.

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