The fact that smoking causes lung cancer and heart problems is not news to smokers. It has been proven that almost all categories of smokers are aware of the dangerous consequences of their habit, and yet they are unwilling to stop. This will make the task of the Anti-Smoking Committee all the more difficult. Studies have shown that fertility rates have dropped drastically among Egyptian young people who smoke. Ironically, about 40 per cent of all practising doctors are smokers.
Smoking is forbidden in hospitals and clinics, but in many cases the ban is ignored.
He vowed that the Doctors' Syndicate would see to it that doctors who smoke in their clinics would face disciplinary action.