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Kurdistan Region (Iraq) stubs out smoking
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11.10.2006 |
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Erbil, Kurdistan
Region (Iraq) October 11, - The government of Iraq's
Kurdistan region has banned tobacco advertising and
ordered billboards promoting smoking to be removed,
a spokesman of the Kurdish Health Ministry said on
Wednesday.
"The minister wants the ministry to implement some
measurements to preserve public health as those
implemented in the European countries," spokesman
Nowzad Abdul-Aziz told Reuters.
The ban, which went into effect on October 1,
applies to the three provinces of the autonomous
Kurdistan region.
Abdul-Aziz said his ministry would soon launch a
health awareness programme to help Kurds kick the
habit, including smoking bans at state-owned
buildings. |
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"We think that working slowly on this would be more
effective as people would not agree if we impose
laws on them," he said.
A Reuters reporter in Kurdistan's capital Erbil saw
government workers clearing billboards advertising
cigarettes from roads.
Reuters
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