Publication Date:
Sun, 2003-09-14 03:00
JEDDAH, 14 September 2003 — About 40 percent of government employees are smokers, according to a recent survey conducted by the Anti-Smoking Society in the Kingdom. “Of these smokers, 48 percent are married,” Okaz reported yesterday quoting the study.
A total of 40,621 smokers visited the anti-smoking clinics in a single year, the Arabic daily said, adding that 7,908 of them had been able to quit the habit.
The largest number of people who visited the anti-smoking clinics was in the Eastern Province — 5,501, but only 1,119 of them stopped smoking. In Jeddah, 4,337 smokers visited the clinics and 580 of them stopped smoking.
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