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Our project is considered on section VI “health and environmental cooperation”
In the past 2 years the WHO describe that 40%-49% of the Iraqi people are smokers and it’s the major cause of lung cancer…It’s a huge ratio and we are planning to decrease this ratio, Smoking has been portrayed by its sellers as a manly, masculine habit, linked to health, happiness, fitness, wealth, power and sexual success. In reality, it leads to sickness, premature death and sexual problems.
Almost one billion men in the world smoke – about 35 percent of men in developed countries and 50 percent of men in developing countries. Trends in both developed and developing countries show that male smoking rates have now peaked and, slowly but surely, are declining. However, this is an extremely slow trend over decades, and in the meantime men are dying in their millions from tobacco. In general, the educated man is giving up the habit first, so that smoking is becoming a habit of poorer, less educated males.
We as an alumni student will use what we have learned in our exchange program (from public policy knowledge to the environment promotion knowledge & leadership skills) here in Iraq to help build a better community for all the Iraqi people, some of the members are medical students (including me) so they will use what they are learning in medical college and combine it with the knowledge they gain in their exchange program to make this project more efficient, and the activity of this project will extend to include Baghdad and Erbil, Karbala.