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Anti-Smoking Campaign Billed a Success 

After seven days of awareness-raising efforts among the growing number of women smokers, the Anti-Smoking Society in the Makkah Region concluded its campaign yesterday. The group focused on popular hangouts where Saudi women enjoy blowing smoke.

“We found the experience successful and women were aware and open to receiving advice and know more about the risks they are taking,” said Om Al-Hosn Al-Sharif, head of the women’s department at the society.

There are approximately 600,000 Saudi women that smoke, according to Dr. Abdullah Al-Badah, supervisor of the anti-smoking program at the Health Ministry.

During the first and second days of the campaign, women members of the society distributed flyers and brochures on Jeddah’s Corniche with facts about smoking and its dangers. They included information about smoking shisha (water pipe tobacco) as well.

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