At a formal gathering in UAE, officials from Ministry of Health announced that they had received an unprecedented response to ‘No Tobacco Campaign’, an awareness drive to acquaint residents about the dangers of tobacco consumption. “It has been a successful initiative by all standards. We set out to educate people about the hazards and to elicit a response. The campaign has received almost 10,000 pledges from smokers who have refrained from smoking on 31st of May which is observed globally as the World No Tobacco Day,” said Dr Wedad Al Maidoor, Head of the National Tobacco Control Committee, Ministry of Health UAE. Read more