The Institute of Community and Public Health launches an anti-smoking campaign entitled “United Against Tobacco and COVID” in partnership with the Global Health Development |EMPHNET and under the auspices of the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
This campaign is part of a regional campaign that includes several Arab countries, namely Jordan, Iraq and Egypt along with Palestine.
It aims to disseminate risk messages for tobacco use cessation, which will be broadcasted on radio, television, and social media platforms in the aforementioned countries to reach smokers, those who are close to them and others who might be interested.
Dr. Niveen Abu Rmeileh, the Campaign Manager, participated in the campaign’s regional launch day, which took place on 6 June 2022, in Amman, the Jordanian Capital.
The campaign will be launched in Palestine on 15 June 2022 at Birzeit University. According to Abu Rmeileh, the campaign will include a set of events, activities, and challenges via social media platforms, in addition to the production of radio spots, posters, awareness videos, fact sheets and social service announcements.
Abu Rmeileh said: "We will work with absolute faith to achieve the campaign's goals, by stopping hookah smoking, due to its harm that exceeds the health limits of its users, all families, children and adults, towards a hookah-free society."
