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• Traders Offer Bribe to Stop Anti-Smoking Campaign 

Tobacco traders in the Kingdom offered a bribe of SR4 million to organizers of a campaign titled “Family Without Smoking ... For Protection from Cancer” to stop it, said Fahd Al-Suleimani, president of Iman Charitable Society for the Care of Cancer Patients.

“They also offered a bribe of SR2 million if we remove the words ‘For Protection from Cancer’ from the campaign slogan,” Al-Watan Arabic daily quoted Al-Suleimani as saying at a press conference held to announce the campaign.

He said the monthlong campaign, which began yesterday, includes a three-kilometer walk on the Jeddah Corniche on Wednesday with the participation of Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal and Saudi singer Muhammad Abdu.

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