Enforcing Smoke-free Workplaces in Jordan

Last month in Dubai, Jordan’s leading drug manufacturer, Hikma Pharmaceuticals, and King Abdullah II Center for Excellence (KACE) represented Jordan along with King Hussein Cancer Center (KHCC) at the World Congress on Cardiology. The event, co-organized by the World Heart Federation and the Global Smoke-free Partnership (GSP), brought together regional leaders to strategize how to “reduce the burden of smoking on businesses” and to broadcast the upside of smoke-free work environments. The congress also launched the Arabic version of “smoke-free-in-a-box”, a toolkit to guide employers through the dance steps of creating a smoke-free workplace. Created by the Cancer Control Office in partnership with GSP, the guide features Hikma as a stellar example of a no-smoking Middle Eastern business. The company kicked off their tobacco ban way back in 1994. (Source)