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Health : Ramadan, a chance to stop smoking 

Jump to full article: Morocco Times (ma), 2005-10-07

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The holy month of Ramadan offers smokers the opportunity to progressively get rid of the lethal habit that daily kills millions of persons around the globe.

Lung cancer affects smokers 25 times more than nonsmokers.

Recent studies have shown that 34% of Moroccan men and less than 1% of Moroccan women who are 20 years old or more are smokers.

Taking pleasure in giving off smoke from their cigarettes, smokers ignore the fact that they threaten not only their lives, but also those of the persons around them.

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