consumption
One of the recent statistical studies indicated that smokers in the Kingdom pay more than 5 billion riyals for consuming 40 thousand tons of tobacco annually. Muhammad Majid Barzanji, a consultant and head of the Chest Diseases and Allergy Department at Dr. Soliman Fakeeh Hospital, said that this frightening number is equivalent to the Kingdom''s imports of a basic food commodity such as rice, which sheds light on the extent of the direct economic losses that the Kingdom incurs as a result of smoking, in addition to other losses related The high cost of treating the dangerous diseases associated with smoking.
For her part, Dr. Manal Shams, a consultant family medicine consultant and coordinator of combating smoking in primary health care in Jeddah governorate, confirmed that studies conducted in America and Britain indicated that the molasses head is equivalent to burning between 40 to 100 cigarettes, although the research on honey is not a lot because of its frequent use in the East. The middle precisely.
