http://www.tobacco.org/newsfeed/country/uae:_dubai.rss Latest top tobacco news headlines en-us http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/health/60-of-lung-cancer-patients-in-uae-are-smokers-expert-1.975887 http://tobacco.org/news/333311.html * The Genomics Centre noted there is a lack of national strategies to treat or prevent cancers in the Arab communities. Dubai: Lung cancer is the most common cancer among Arab men and the only way to tackle this is for men to give up smoking, a medical institution in Dubai has warned. A report released on World Cancer Day on Saturday by the Centre for Arab Genomic Studies points out that cancer is the third-leading cause of deaths in the UAE. But researchers note that cancer causes more deaths in the country than heart disease or traffic accidents. Gulf News Mid-east Uae: Dubai Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wam.org.ae/servlet/Satellite?c=WamLocEnews&cid=1289997201477&pagename=WAM%2FWAM_E_Layout http://tobacco.org/news/333066.html The 21st GCC Tobacco Control Committee has discussed ways of updating the GCC tobacco control plan and implemented strategies, warning images and other topics related to anti smoking and tobacco control. The meeting was hosted by the Ministry of Health in Coral Deira Hotel in Dubai today. At the opening session, Dr. Mahmoud Fikri, Assistant Undersecretary for Health Policies at the Ministry of Health, welcomed the members of the committee conveying the greetings of Abdul Rahman Al Owais, Acting Minister of Health and expressing his gratitude for the efforts of the executive office of the GCC Health Ministers Council. He also reassured the efforts of the GCC tobacco control committee for fighting tobacco and smoking practices in the gulf region. Emirates News Agency Mid-east Uae: Dubai Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wam.ae/servlet/Satellite?c=WamLocEnews&cid=1289997201477&pagename=WAM%2FWAM_E_Layout&parent=Query&parentid=1135099399852 http://tobacco.org/news/333024.html WAM Dubai, Jan 29th, 2012 (WAM) -- The 21st GCC Tobacco Control Committee has discussed ways of updating the GCC tobacco control plan and implemented strategies, warning images and other topics related to anti smoking and tobacco control. The meeting was hosted by the Ministry of Health in Coral Deira Hotel in Dubai today. At the opening session, Dr. Mahmoud Fikri, Assistant Undersecretary for Health Policies at the Ministry of Health, welcomed the members of the committee conveying the greetings of Abdul Rahman Al Owais, Acting Minister of Health and expressing his gratitude for the efforts of the executive office of the GCC Health Ministers Council. He also reassured the efforts of the GCC tobacco control committee for fighting tobacco and smoking practices in the gulf region. He said: "All of us must unite our efforts and visions to find a mechanism for facing smoking dangers and their economic impacts and unhealthy dangers. The United Arab Emirates finalized the issuance of the tobacco control federal law and made great efforts in preparing the executive by laws that are expected to be approved soon by competent authorities". Emirates News Agency Mid-east Uae: Dubai Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/health/five-year-old-boy-honoured-for-anti-smoking-campaign-1.962676 http://tobacco.org/news/331689.html Dubai: Five-year-old Satvik Vashisht, who took upon himself the task of creating awareness among smokers about health benefits of quitting, has been honoured by the Public Health and Safety Department of Dubai Municipality for his efforts. Vashisht, who was featured by Gulf News when he started the campaign last year, reached out to more than 500 smokers in several areas including Lamcy Plaza, near the Creek, the Global Village and Meena Bazaar. Gulf News Uae: Dubai Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/health/five-year-old-reaches-out-to-smokers-through-the-haze-1.945122 http://tobacco.org/news/330106.html Dubai: A five-year-old schoolboy has taken upon himself the task of making smokers aware of the health benefits of quitting. Satvik Vashisht, a KGII student of Indian High School Dubai, can be spotted going about his mission with a clutch of pamphlets at malls and other public places. "It is very bad," he says when asked why he wants people to stop smoking. He elicits a range of emotions from those he approaches. Gulf News Uae: Dubai Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:00:00 GMT http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/health/thinking-of-my-lungs-makes-me-scared-says-one-nicotine-addict-1.926430 http://tobacco.org/news/328482.html Dubai: Gulf News' Stub it! campaign has kicked off to help its readers quit smoking and lead a better quality of life. We will be following the five readers over the next six months to a year. Dr Malek says it usually takes around six to eight months to kick the habit. Five readers are presently undergoing counselling and are being given professional medical help to put them back on the road to better health. Gulf News' partner in this campaign is DM Healthcare Group. The Group has offered Dh100,000 free health insurance cover for a year to each of the readers in their fight against nicotine addiction. Gulf News readers@gulfnews.com (Mahmood Saberi, Senior Reporter, Gulf News) Uae: Dubai Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:00:00 GMT http://www.deccanherald.com/content/181027/fatwa-allows-fasting-men-use.html http://tobacco.org/news/328415.html A special fatwa issued by a religious body here has permitted smokers to use of nicotine patches during the month of Ramadan to deal with withdrawal symptoms, saying it does not violate the observance of fasting. The Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department (IACAD) here issues list of fatwas daily to help Muslims observe their fast in the right manner during Ramadan. "Nicotine patches, which can help smokers to deal with their withdrawal symptoms during the day, are permitted," the fatwa said. "It is allowed to use these patches as they are not nutritious and the substances in it are absorbed through the skin and blood and not passed through the abdomen." Deccan Herald dhfeedback@deccanherald.co.in Uae: Dubai Wed, 03 Aug 2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidGN_31102011_011154/ http://tobacco.org/news/328176.html The UAE Cabinet yesterday approved warnings on cigarette packets with a graphic picture covering about half of the packet. It also bans tobacco companies from using “smooth, “silky”, “light” or similar words to describe the product. Abdul Rahman Al Owais, Acting Minister of Health, said the regulation will be enforced once approved at the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) level. It is part of the UAE anti-tobacco executive bylaw, he said. He did not give a deadline when this will be enforced. Dr Wedad Al Maidour, head of the tobacco control committee, welcomed the move, saying that graphic images send a strong message to smokers. She called it a “great achievement”. The next step is to have plain, white packs without any labelling as in Australia and the UK, she said. Zawya.com support@zawya.com (Samir Salama, Associate Editor and Mahmood Saberi, Senior Reporter © Gulf News 2011. ) Uae Uae: Dubai Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:00:00 GMT http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/health/dha-to-intensify-anti-smoking-campaign-for-dubai-s-youth-1.920775 http://tobacco.org/news/328145.html The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) will intensify its anti-tobacco initiatives through its cessation clinics and campaigns especially targeting school children aged 12-21, an official said Sunday. "Through our smoking awareness campaigns which we have conducted in 2010 and this year, we realised that there is an urgent need to create regular community awareness activities with regard to tobacco use because of the significant number of youngsters using tobacco," Dr Hanan Obaid, Head of Community Health Services Programs Section at the DHA, said. "They are our productive population and are at a high risk of developing diseases "caused by long-term use of tobacco," she added. Gulf News Uae: Dubai Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.ameinfo.com/274677.html http://tobacco.org/news/326130.html In a bid to create awareness in the community about the ill-effects of tobacco smoking, the DHA primary healthcare sector recently conducted an anti-tobacco campaign. The campaign is part of the overall year-long campaign that the DHA conducts in collaboration with various government and private organisations in the Emirate of Dubai. DHA members held a campaign at Dubai Customs, Holy Quran Award and they will also begin their campaign in Dubai Airport to educate passengers about the ill-effects of smoking. AME Info FZ LLC Uae: Dubai Mon, 12 Sep 2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.thenational.ae/lifestyle/food/cigar-ice-cream-anyone http://tobacco.org/news/321782.html DUBAI // Karl Heinz does not hesitate when he names the strangest ingredient he has used in his exotic ice creams. The asparagus ice cream sounds odd as do the requests from customers for wasabi, brown bread and pineapple curry flavours. But the cigar ice cream wins the prize as weirdest. No matter how unusual, the German ice-cream maker, who moved to Dubai four years ago, will make any flavour from scratch on demand. And so when Dubai Marine Beach Resort & Spa called to order the tobacco leaf-flavoured dessert four months ago, he said yes. "They asked for a cigar ice cream for a themed dinner held for the launch of a cigar in their hotel. Not my taste, but I did it," he says. . . . Mr Heinz bought a bunch of Cohiba cigars and cut them into tiny pieces. He added them to his basic ice cream mix of milk, sugar, cream and a stabiliser that helps give the ice cream a better texture and then strained the concoction to maintain the cigar aroma. The National Newspaper cmalek@thenational.ae ( Caline Malek) Uae: Dubai Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:00:00 GMT http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/health/dubai-goes-smoke-free-for-a-day-as-part-of-initiative-1.815657 http://tobacco.org/news/320831.html Dubai: It was a day without smoke in Dubai as the civic authority banned the sale of cigarettes in the emirates for 24 hours Tuesday morning. Petrol stations and leading retail outlets put up signs saying that cigarettes would not be sold. Emarat and Enoc petrol stations turned away customers who wanted to buy a pack of cigarettes Tuesay. Dubai Municipality said that in support of the no smoking initiative, 63 shops, hypermarkets and supermarkets stopped selling tobacco products for a day. It said that almost all restaurants and cafes cooperated with the civic body and participated in the campaign by stopping the sale of shisha for 12 hours. Meanwhile, Dr Hanif Hassan, Minister of Health, said yesterday that the UAE planned to build more smoking cessation clinics across the country to help people quit smoking. Gulf News Uae: Dubai Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2011/June/theuae_June10.xml&section=theuae http://tobacco.org/news/320829.html DUBAI -- Commercial outlets repeatedly violating the Dubai Municipality's (DM) anti-tobacco regulations face the risk of suspension of their licences, a senior official said on Tuesday. The civic body honoured the outlets that observed a ban on tobacco sale on Tuesday, to mark World No Tobacco Day. The municipality, which started the implementation of a series of anti-smoking regulations from 2007, has suspended the licences of a few salons and spas after repeatedly finding evidence of allowing customers to smoke inside their premises, said Director of Public Health and Safety Department Redha Hassan Salman. "They were cases where fines were not effective. We suspended their licences because they repeated the offences even after being fined. Since the fines are linked to licence renewal, sometimes they do not create an immediate effect on the violators. In such cases, they repeat the offence, which we cannot tolerate," Salman told 
Khaleej Times. Kahlee Times sajila@khaleejtimes.com ( Sajila Saseendran) Uae: Dubai Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidGN_30052011_310532/Antitobacco_drive_to_target_schools_in_UAE http://tobacco.org/news/320755.html Dubai Health Authority (DHADHA) has highlighted the urgent need to carry out sustained anti-tobacco campaigns in schools after a survey showed that the smoking habit sets in by 10 years of age in many cases. A survey of 5,000 households shows that adult smokers in the UAE pick up the habit at a very young age with women smokers too starting by the age of 13. It found that smokers are not well educated compared to non-smokers who are graduates or better qualified. The survey was conducted in 2009 and its results were released yesterday to mark World No Smoking Day. It is the largest and most comprehensive survey on health and health care issues ever carried out in Dubai. Zawya.com Uae: Dubai Tue, 31 May 2011 04:00:00 GMT http://gulftoday.ae/portal/ea871926-ad00-4607-bb5c-cda07916bf63.aspx http://tobacco.org/news/320418.html Students of the University of Strathclyde teamed up with ideas including campaigns to deal with drug addiction, blood donation, a road safety and a bike-recycling programme during Marketing Week event, the first of its kind held in Dubai. The programme continued on Friday with a student competition, held in association with Dubai One TV. Gathering at the university's Dubai campus at Dubai Women's College (DWC), student teams worked together to develop a CSR focused, social media marketing campaign, targeted at the audiences of Dubai One's show, 'Twenty Something'. The joint winners of the competition, however, both used anti-smoking as the theme for their campaign. Their ideas to raise awareness of the dangers of smoking ranged from the creation of a blog to act as a support network for individuals trying to quit smoking, through to a forum for people to share their personal experiences of the negative impacts of smoking, alongside an endurance sports competition, to highlight the benefits of quitting. The Gulf Today Uae: Dubai Sun, 22 May 2011 04:00:00 GMT