After my exchange with Naïm on smoking in Morocco, I’m delighted to see today in Yabiladi that a programme against smoking in schools has finally been launched.
This operation, called “collèges, lycées et entreprises sans tabac” (“middle schools, high schools and companies without tobacco”), is sponsored by the “Association Lalla Salma de lutte contre le Cancer” (“Lalla Salma Association for the Fight against Cancer”) and is starting in the major cities, Rabat, Casablanca and the Souss region, probably Agadir.
It is supported by doctors and nurses, to help young and old alike to stop smoking.
Action is also being taken in companies.
At last!
But it’s just the beginning, and it will be a long, long time before this scourge disappears.
Among poor people, tobacco is both an appetite suppressant and, mixed with pot, a tranquilliser that helps them get through the long days of inactivity. It is this population that is the most sensitive to tobacco.
Women smoke much less than men in Morocco, and, except among the wealthy, never in public. But female smoking is gaining ground.
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