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" }' f .W \Wi UW k:~j im 400 SATURDAY, AUGUST 16 TO FRIDAY AUGUST 22 Bahrain 300 5ts Kuwai[ 25o flls Sauch A.abia 3 nyda Qatar 3 nyds. ANTI-SMOKERS' METHODS 'UNETHICAL'. `Spy' campaign denounced A TOP Bahrain radiologist has condemned the Anti-Smoking Society's latest "spy" cam- paign as °unethicaP` and "an invasion of privacy." Dr N.S. Jamsheer told the Gulf Mirror this week that the Society's plan to inform on smokers was not only wrong it was also self-deteating. Each of the Society's 2,000 ' members is being asked to sup- ply the names and addresses of smokers who are then sent booklets describing the health hazards of smoking. Said Dr lamsheer: "This campaign is carrying things too far. It is asking people to inform on others. The reper- cussions could be endless. I bring about the opposite "The next thing we will' find is that people will have the right to know who one's friends are, what one eats, and w%hat time one gets up in the morn- . ing. " We will end up with a whole generation built on the mental- ity of informers.- "Such arm-twisting techni- ques are ineffective and could results.° Dr Jamsheer, who does not smoke, said the only way to organise an effective campaign was to educate people at an early age by conducting anti- smoking campaigns in schools. Secretary of the Bahrain Anti-Smoking Society Dr. Mohammed AI Khatib, who announced the campaign, was not available for comment. Last week he described the move as a means to make peo- ple more aware of the hazards of smoking and said it would be backed up by anti-smoking qmpaigns in schools. I