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March 2005

Activities:

1 – Training  of 120 Red Crescent volunteers on 4 successive days  from 19:22 March  to conduct the message of  smoking hazards (active and passive) to school children in Giza governorate. It has been done in collaboration  with Ministry of Health and Population, Ministry of Education and a five stars Hotel as a part of it's community development activities. These intervention sessions were conducted by Dr. Aisha Abou el-Fotouh, Dr. Eman Mahfouz, Dr. Nagah Abdel-Aziz.

2- Our team represented by Dr. Mustafa Kamal, Dr. Ebenezer Israel, Dr. Chris Laredo, Dr.Mar-jan ostrowski , Dr. Maged Setouhy, Dr.Mohamed Hassan, Dr.Nargis Albert, Dr.Ghada Nasr, Dr.Dina Kamel shared in the 11th Annual Meeting of Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco and 7th Annual European Conference March 20-23, 2005 with 2 presentations & 12 posters.

"We also announced at the meeting the introduction of the Egyptian Society for Research on Tobacco Prevention, and the plans to start the journal Tobacco Control Research in Middle East and Africa by asking for reviewers and participants."

 EPSRI members also attended meetings on starting and planning a Middle East outreach program for tobacco research.

The presentations are in the following subjects:

v     CARBOXYHEMOGLOBIN IN WATERPIPE SMOKERS COMPARED TO CIGARETTE SMOKERS:

presented by Dr. Ghada Radwan

v    NON DAILY MALE SMOKERS COMPARED TO DAILY SMOKERS:

presented by Dr. Dina Kamel

The posters are in the following subjects:

v    SMOKING , HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, and DIABETES IN A NATIONAL SURVEY IN EGYPT 2002

v    Mostafa K. Mohamed, Rehab  Abdel Rahman, ElSaeed Aly Aoun, Nasr Elsaied, Magda Raha, Mehris Mohamed, Ebenezer Israel and Mohamed Awad Tag El-Din.

v    SCOUTS JOIN THE FIGHT TO PREVENT SMOKING!

v    Aisha Aboul Fotouh, Mohamed Abdel-Latif1, Mostafa Mohamed, Maged El- Setouhy ,Mohamed Hosni , Shahinaz Gadalla  and Ebenezer Israel

v    SMOKING AMONG MALE YOUTH SCHOOL DROPOUTS  

v    Maged A El Setouhy, Marwa Khalid, Mostafa Mohamed, Fatma Abdel-Aziz and Ebenezer Israel .

v    WOMEN SMOKING IN WATERPIPE CAFES

Nargis Labib, Ghada Radwan, Mostafa K Mohamed,, Maged El- Setouhy, Rasha Aziz, and Ebenezer Israel .

v    LESS HARMFUL? MOTIVATION FOR FEMALE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TO USE WATERPIPE

Nargis Labib, Ghada Radwan, Nabiel Mikahil, Maged El- Setouhy, Mostafa K Mohamed and Ebenezer Israel

v     WHO ENDS UP WITH COPD AMONG SMOKERS IN A COMMUNITY SETTING?

Mohamed Zakaria, Ghada Radwan, Mostafa Mohamed, Mahmoud El-Zorkany, Fatma Abdel-Aziz, and Ebenezer Israel

v    PULMONARY DYSFUNCTION FROM LARGE AIRWAYS VERSUS SMALL AIRWAYS AMONG WATER PIPE SMOKERS

Ghada Hamada, Ghada Radwan, Ebenezer Israel , Mohamed Zakaria, Maged El-Setouhy, Mostafa Mohamed and Christopher Loffredo.

v    IS PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW (PEF) A GOOD INDICATOR FOR ASSESSING AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION IN WATERPIPE SMOKERS?

Ghada Hamada, Ghada Radwan,  Mohamed Zakaria, Christopher Loffredo , Mostafa Mohamed, Maged Setouhy,  Ebenezer Israel.

v    SOCIOECONOMIC PREDICTORS OF SMOKING BEHAVIORIOR

Eman  Mahfouz, Rehab  Abdel Rahman, Ghada Radwan ; Eman Al Tahlawy, Mostafa Mohamed, Fatma Abdel-Aziz and Ebenezer Israel.

v    CAN YOU AFFORD TO OVERLOOK WATERPIPE SMOKING?

Jim Neergaard , Ghada Radwan, Mostafa Mohamed, Fatma Abdel-Aziz, and Ebenezer Israel

v    WHO IS TRYING TO QUIT SMOKING?

Rehab Abdel Rahman, Maged El-Setouhy, Mostafa Mohamed, and Ebenezer Israel .

v    IS EXPERIMENTAL SMOKING A STEPPING STONE TO CURRENT SMOKING?

Rehab Abdel Rahman, Maged El-Setouhy, Mostafa Mohamed, and Ebenezer Israel .