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• 8% of Income, Syrian Smokers Spend on 3,6 kg of Cigarettes, a Study Says 

In its statistics, the Syrian General Establishment of TobaccoGeneral Establishment of Tobacco pointed out that smokers annually spend about S.P. 26 billion (USD 600 million) which means that each smoker spends 8 percent of his annual income to buy about 3,6 kg of cigarettes.

The statistics stressed that the percentage of smokers raise to 15 %, where the informal studies indicated that the real percentage is more than 20 %.

The study, made by the Syrian Center for Smoking Researches, showed that the rate of smokers among men reaches 60 percent and 23 percent for women.

Due to the danger of smoking on the smoker himself and his society, the Syrian government exerted all efforts to combat smoking through issuing a number of decrees to prevent tobacco propaganda like the Decree No.13 for the year 1996 and the legislative Decree No. 59 for the year 2004 which allowed Syria to join the Framework Agreement on Tobacco Control

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