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Iranians waste away 8 million dollars in smoking every day

TEHRAN - The head of Iranian Anti-Tobacco Association (IATA) has announced that Iranian cigarette smokers spend about 8 million dollars on smoking every day; however, the cost of treating diseases related to smoking is twice of that figure. 

 

Seyyed Hassan Moein Shirazi, in an interview with the Persian service of the Mehr News on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day on Wednesday, said that Iran was the first country to approve the comprehensive tobacco control law in 2006, but unfortunately there has been no sign of progress in implementing the law.

 

“Foreign cigarettes have dominated the Iranian market by more than 90 percent,” Moein Shirazi said. “And smokers find cigarettes at their fingertips.” 

 

“Education, information and prevention are the three most effective factors in the battle against tobacco,” he explained.

 

IATA, founded in 1983, has worked hard to decrease tobacco consumption in the country.

 

IATA’s hard work has led to the ratification and implementation of Iran’s national tobacco control law, which includes pictorial health warnings and tobacco tax increases.

 

IATA’s work also includes: 

 

•    Establishing several cessation clinics;

•    Research on tobacco-related issues, such as effects of tobacco                       control policies on consumption.

•    Facilitating strategies for fighting tobacco smuggling.

•    Convincing officials on importance of tobacco control as a vital issue.

 

 

 

“Clean Breath” for the young

 

One of IATA’s more interesting tobacco control strategies is to target young people through its “Clean Breath” program.

 

The Clean Breath program targets young people in the hope to steer them away from smoking at an early age – before they have taken up the habit and find it harder to quit later in life.

 

A researcher said that a recent Iranian study into the smoking patterns of Tehran school students found that roughly 30 percent had already tried smoking.

 

Therefore, IATA believes that encouraging preventive methods from childhood and developing effective methods of child-rearing for parents will have a great effect on preventing young people from taking up smoking.

 

The program aims to increase children’s awareness about:

 

•    The harms of smoking to their physical, mental, social and economic well-being as well as the environment;
 

•    Unreasonable beliefs on tobacco use and the difficulty of quitting;
 

•    Acquiring self-knowledge and applying behavioral skills against cravings for smoking;
 

•    Training other family members to prevent tobacco use in the home and community.

www.tehrantimes.com

The Goose with the Golden Eggs

Once when a Lion was asleep, a little

Once upon a time, a man and his wife had the good fortune to have a goose which laid a golden egg every day. Lucky though they were, they soon began to think they were not getting rich fast enough.

They imagined that if the bird must be able to lay golden eggs, its insides must be made of gold. And they thought that if they could get all that precious metal at once, they would get mighty rich very soon. So the man and his wife decided to kill the bird.

However, upon cutting the goose open, they were shocked to find that its innards were like that of any other goose!

MORAL: THINK BEFORE YOU ACT

Vacuum the Carpet

She inspected the carpet for small items. She saw a paper clip and a rubber band. She picked them up. She put them into a little box on the kitchen counter. She plugged in the vacuum cleaner. She turned on the switch. The cat ran out of the room. She vacuumed the living room. She went back and forth. She was finished ten minutes later. The green carpet looked clean. She pulled the vacuum cleaner plug out of the wall socket. She put the vacuum cleaner back into the hall closet. The cat returned to the living room. It climbed onto the back of the sofa. It looked out the window at the birds.