UAE Smokers Could Face Extinction

[Vocalek]

Cheap tobacco and an often flagrant disregard for clean air policies mean it's fair to say the UAE is something of a smoker's paradise.

[SNIP]

One man who's determined to make his mark on this high figure is Dr Saul Shiffman, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, who has clocked up more than three decades of clinical research on the subject of addiction.
Shiffman is a regular visitor to the Emirates, and has just completed another lecture tour of the region with pharmaceutical giants GlaxoSmithKline, where he advised physicians about the methods they could use to help smokers quit.


Unsurprisingly, considering the sponsor of his tour, he firmly endorses the use of nicotine replacement products. Yet there are other, and less expensive, weapons in a doctor's armoury, he says, and none are more effective than impressing on a patient the likelihood of them contracting a fatal illness.

UAE Smokers Could Face Extinction | Al Bawaba

Not a word about tobacco harm reduction....

 

[Eddie.Willers]

A lecture tour sponsored by BP - GlaxoSmithKline, no less!

Would you really expect unbiased, clinically neutral advice from a "physician" with a paid agenda? I think not...