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Saudi Arabia: Doll and Peto honoured
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The potential of the Catholic Church as a proactive force in tobacco control has been in focus recently (Tobacco Control 2003;14:78), but an even greater opportunity for bringing about long term improvements in health may be found in the Muslim world. Muslim colleagues argue that not only are there such large numbers of Muslims in the developing world, but the high proportion who attend the mosque every Friday means that if Muslim clerics can be persuaded to have a better understanding of the importance of the tobacco problem, their potential for encouraging cessation and cooperation with other aspects of tobacco control policy is not to be underestimated.
The award of the prize for medicine, one category in the prestigious King Faisal awards, to two of the world’s most distinguished medical research scientists for their work on tobacco, should provide a significant boost for tobacco control not
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