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• Living in a haze of tobacco smoke  

Jump to full article: The Peninsula (qa), 2008-09-16
Author: SATISH KANADY

Intro:

The World Health Organisation's (WHO) latest report, "Global Tobacco Epidemic 2008-MPOWER Package", has thrown up interesting facts and figures about passive smoking in Qatar. WHO's country report shows that a large number of womenfolk in Qatar are passive smokers.

The report says an estimated 33.8 percent of youth in Qatar are active smokers. Of this 12.7 percent are female.

But the proportion of Qatar's passive female smokers is an alarming 46.8 percent. This is the percentage of women who are exposed to smoke inside their homes. The rate may even touch 50.3 percent, the report states.

Significantly, the number of males exposed to tobacco smoke inside homes in Qatar is less than that of females.

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