College of Medicine

The College of Engineering held an awareness workshop for students “the harms of smoking and the benefits of quitting”, on Wednesday12th January 2022. The Lecturer Dr Naglaa I. Al-Sammak from the Department of Family and Community Medicine delivered her lecture in it.

The workshop included presenting many scientific facts related to smoking addiction, healthily, economically and socially. Many authorized statistics have indicated that smoking is linked to chronic diseases and its association with premature death. She addressed the need to quit smoking and start returning to normal life and reduce the damage to the smoker’s body and those around him. On the sidelines of the work, a questionnaire was conducted about the opinion of the participants in the workshop with some information on the consequences of smoking, and then a general discussion on the topics presented as a whole.