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Middle East: religion against tobacco
EMRO-WHO, Cairo, Egypt; AlAwaF@emro.who.int
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Tobacco use is a social problem and controlling it requires real change in social beliefs and norms. One thing that has worked successfully in this regard throughout the centuries in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean region is religion. Thus, whenever possible, a religious message should be activated at all different levels.
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Under a plan of action developed in the World Health Organization’s Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO), the fatwa (religious edict) on smoking, issued by the Grand Mufti of Egypt, was summarised and the summary approved by the Grand Mufti himself as well as the national authority concerned. Eighty thousand posters of
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