Ajman University Celebrates Arab and Gulf Anti-Smoking Week

To mark Arab and Gulf Anti-Smoking Week, the Department of Community Service at Ajman University of Science and Technology received yesterday October 17 a delegation from the Smoke Cessation Clinic at Primary Healthcare Center of Ajman Medical Zone. The move is meant to promote health awareness among AUST Community and sensitize its members, students and staff, to the perils of the vice.

Noor Al Shaghouri, Community Service Officer at AUST, explained that the drive aims at raising public awareness, particularly among the University students, of the hazardous effects of cigarette smoking on the smokers’ overall health, behavior and social life.

Al Shaghouri added that the one-week campaign endeavors to combat smoking by all possible means and encourage addicted students to quit and completely abandon this bad habit, which reportedly has a negative impact on their college performance and academic achievement.

A number of brochures, featuring the dangers of smoking on the individual, family and society were distributed to participants. Also during the event a special device was set up in the campus to identify and measure the levels of toxic carbon monoxide in the blood of smokers. Besides, many demonstrative figures were used to illustrate the magnitude of damage tobacco consumption causes to the vital organs of the human body.

Meanwhile, the Clinic’s visiting doctors organized a number of cultural, awareness-raising competitions on the topic of smoking cessation and cigarette addiction combating. The interaction among students and participants was astonishingly high.