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UAE to impose new rules on tobacco companies 

By 2010, all tobacco companies in the UAE will have to carry health messages with appropriate graphic images, according to Dr Wedad Al Maidoor, head of the Smoking Cessation Committee, Ministry of Health.

'Our overall aim and hope is to reduce the incidence of smoking among people in the UAE,' she remarked at the end of a smoking cessation programme held recently in Dubai.

With more and more non-smokers concerned about the effects of passive smoking, we are hoping that it will have a knock-on effect on smokers, she added.

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