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Experts on tobacco control: If the Greeks can do it, so can the Lebanese! (PDF) 

Lebanon can learn from Greece, the leading smoking nation in the Mediterranean, as well as the successes made in the United States and other countries in order to implement an effective tobacco control policy, said public health and policy experts during a recent AUB lecture.

“In Lebanon today you are facing what we faced 25 years ago in the U.S.; we were pushing to have bans of smoking in closed areas in restaurants and no one imagined we could do it,” said Professor Richard Daynard who teaches law at the Northeastern University School of law and is at the forefront of an international movement to establish the legal responsibility of the tobacco industry for tobacco-induced death, disease and disability. He is president of the law school's Public Health Advocacy Institute and chair of its Tobacco Products Liability Project.

Entitled, “Translating Science into Effective Tobacco Control Policies: Three Perspectives,” the lecture was organized by the AUB’s Tobacco Control Research Group (AUB-TCRG) and the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs and was held on June 2 in West Hall’s Auditorium A.

Daynard noted that it would be easier for Lebanon to achieve success as it could learn from the hiccups faced by other countries that have led successful tobacco control policy development.

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