KARACHI: Commissioner of Karachi, Roshan Ali Shaikh will be presided a seminar, Tobacco Industry Interference, jointly organized by Pakistan Chest Society of Sindh and Chest Medicine Department of JPMC to celebrate World No Tobacco Day 2012.

The program scheduled for May 30 will be addressed by Prof. Javaid A Khan who would discuss the issue of tobacco control and current challenges for Pakistan.

Prof. Nadeem A Rizvi, head of chest department, Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre will make his presentation on "sheesha smoking".

This will be followed by research works of Dr. Shaheena A Qayyum on Women and Tobacco and that of Dr. Mirza Saifullah Baig on second hand smoking. Both the researchers belong to Ojha Institute of Chest Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences.

 

Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2012


 

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