Islamic school students trade cigarettes for flowers
Students and teachers from Mariam Albatool Islamic School, Corradino, some wearing traditional costumes from various Muslim countries, recently offered flowers to smokers walking along Republic Street, Valletta, who were ready to throw away their...
Students and teachers from Mariam Albatool Islamic School, Corradino, some wearing traditional costumes from various Muslim countries, recently offered flowers to smokers walking along Republic Street, Valletta, who were ready to throw away their cigarette.
The school activity was held on the initiative of Wade Nashnosh, Secretary General of the World Islamic Call Society's Malta branch, to spread awareness of the dangers of tobacco and the preventable death and disease it causes, and took place on May 31, which the World Health Organisation has designated as 'World No Tobacco Day'.
Smoking is said to be the world's second major cause of death. It is estimated that half the people who smoke regularly today - about 650 million people - will eventually be killed by tobacco.
Equally alarming is the claim that hundreds of thousands of people who have never smoked, die each year from diseases caused by breathing second-hand tobacco smoke.