Jump to full article: Gulf Daily News (bh), 2007-05-22
Author: MANDEEP SINGH
Intro: SMOKING-related deaths are expected to double to 10 million a year worldwide by 2020, an expert has warned.
"At the moment, nearly five million people die each year due to the scourge," said pharmaceutical company Pfizer Middle East region external affairs and policy director Dr Ahmed El Hakim.
"In the Middle East region, it is not only the cigarette which is causing a lot of problems, it is also the increasing use of the sheesha (hubble bubble) and the bidi (tobacco rolled in dried tree leaf), which are increasingly becoming a problem to deal with." . . .
This is why one of the major areas of focus of a campaign marking World No Tobacco Day in the Middle East this year is sheesha smoking.
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