SUBSCRIPTION WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 RAMADAN 5, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Court suspends Syrian war Arsenal’s controversial takes role in Wenger to cow slaughter Ramadan extend reign, ban in India TV dramas seals new deal Imsak Fajr Shorook Duhr Asr Maghrib Isha 13 39 20 03:06 03:16 04:49 11:45 15:20 18:42 20:13 Smoking and tobacco Min 32º Max 47º High Tide kill 7 million per year 04:40 & 15:45 Low Tide WHO warns of dire environmental impact 09:52 & 22:44 40 PAGES NO: 17244 150 FILS GENEVA: Smoking and other tobacco use kills more than seven million people each year, the World Health Organization said yesterday, also warning of the dire environmental impact of tobacco production, distribu- tion and waste. The UN agency said tougher measures were needed to rein in tobacco use, urging countries to ban smoking in the workplace and indoor public spaces, outlaw marketing of tobacco products and hike cigarette prices. “Tobacco threatens us all,” WHO chief Greatest teacher Margaret Chan said in a statement. “Tobacco exacer- bates poverty, reduces economic productivity, con- By Teresa Lesher tributes to poor household food choices, and pollutes indoor air,” she said. f Ramadan was a person, she would be the In a report released ahead of World No Tobacco Day toughest teacher you ever had - the one who today, WHO warned that the annual death toll of seven Ihad strict rules, gave lots of homework, and million people had jumped from four million at the turn drilled you until she was sure you understood the of the century, making tobacco the world’s single lessons she was trying to teach. Or Ramadan would biggest cause of preventable death. And the death toll be your coach who made you train hard, demand- is expected to keep rising, with WHO bracing for more ing more of you than you thought you could han- than one billion deaths this century. “By 2030, more than 80 percent of the deaths will occur in developing dle, challenging you every day until you mastered countries, which have been increasingly targeted by the moves or continually beat your previous times. tobacco companies seeking new markets to circumvent These are the people who not only believed in tightening regulation in developed nations.” the value of what they taught, but even more so, Tobacco use also brings an economic cost: WHO esti- they believed in your capacity for achievement and mates that it drains more than $1.4 trillion (1.3 trillion growth. They worked you hard because they want- euros) from households and governments each year in ed you to succeed. They didn’t just want you to healthcare expenditures and lost productivity, or nearly pass their test or win the race, they wanted to two percent of the global gross domestic product. In change you forever - to transform you into a confi- addition to the health and economic costs linked to dent, disciplined and ambitious person. smoking, the WHO report for the first time delved into They wanted you to win. These are the people the environmental impact of everything from tobacco we feared, obeyed, respected, and eventually loved. SHANGHAI: A man grinds out his cigarette in an ashtray at a railway station in Shanghai. Smoking-related dis- production to the cigarette butts and other waste pro- These are the people who impacted our lives in eases claim 7 millions of lives each year in the world, the World Health Organization reported yesterday, calling duced by smokers. untold ways, making us our best selves. We vaguely to increase taxes on tobacco. — AFP Continued on Page 13 remember the grueling work and pain of their ways, but we will never forget what we learned about ourselves and how they made us feel. Similar in every way, Ramadan has been my MP questions Finance Minister over Areva greatest teacher and coach. Ramadan has returned By B Izzak has dwindled to just over 10 percent of the original did not take any move to sell its stake in Areva to safe- every year to remind me what I need to do to suc- investment. MP Kundari said the value of KIA stake in guard public funds. According to latest reports, KIA has ceed, and to prove to me that I can do it. In the ear- KUWAIT: Deputy Speaker MP Issa Al-Kundari yesterday Areva plunged gradually in the subsequent years after been bidding to exit from Areva by selling its stake. ly years, it was about submitting my will to my questioned the Finance Minister about why Kuwait the purchase. As a result, the Audit Bureau repeatedly Meanwhile, the legal and legislative committee has Creator’s will. I fasted because the Quran said, Investment Authority (KIA) did not pull out of French called on KIA to withdraw from the company to stop approved a proposal calling to grant Kuwaiti female “Those of you who see the month shall fast.” company Areva despite massive losses of its stake. the massive losses. employees the social and children allowances like their (2:185). It was hard, very hard. But I did it. Year after Kundari said that KIA purchased a stake in Areva in 2010 He said that KIA did not take any measure and its stake male counterparts provided that their husbands do not year, I fulfilled the requirements. But Ramadan was- and this stake has already plunged by over 87.5 percent plunged further. The Audit Bureau said that KIA inaction receive the allowances. The committee also rejected a pro- n’t satisfied with mere compliance. There was much according to reports by the Audit Bureau. did not only represent a financial violation but also a posal by MP Abdullah Fahhad calling to declare the last 10 more to learn. KIA had bought a stake of just under five percent of political violation which comes under the responsibility days of the holy fasting month of Ramadan a public Continued on Page 13 Areva for around $680 million. The value of this stake of the National Assembly. The lawmaker asked why KIA Continued on Page 13 Generation homeless Trying to help Egypt’s street kids CAIRO: Barefoot and wearing shabby the same time try to gather any paperwork clothes, the two-year-old wanders so they can move them later to a shelter. News through the dirty streets of Cairo along- But on this occasion, the team returned in brief side her mother, who has also spent all empty-handed, with no other option but her life without a home of her own. For to leave the children to continue fending Egypt’s government and civil society for themselves in the street. “The law does- ‘Jihadist drug’ seized groups, tackling the growing problem of n’t allow shelters to receive children unless PARIS: French customs officials said yesterday that they street children-some from second- and they have a birth certificate,” said team had intercepted 135 kilograms of Captagon, dubbed the even third-generation homeless families- leader Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed. MARAWI: Philippine marines patrol a deserted street in Marawi on the southern “jihadists’ drug”, at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport this is proving difficult. In the low-income “Most of them are second- and third- island of Mindanao yesterday. — AFP year, a first for France. Captagon, a type of ampheta- district of Sayeda Zeinab, workers from generation street children and don’t mine, is one of the most commonly used drugs among the ministry of social solidarity set out to have any official papers, and usually their fighters in the Syrian war. “It is the first time that this help street children, this time to give fathers refuse to acknowledge paternity,” Surrender or die drug has been seized in France,” the customs agency them first-aid training. he said. According to the most recent said in a statement. Customs officials at Charles de Members of the ministry’s “Children ministry figures from a 2014 survey, Gaulle discovered 350,000 Captagon pills weighing 70 Without Shelter” program wear matching Egypt has about 16,000 street children, Philippines warns militants kilograms on January 4 hidden among industrial moulds green shirts bearing the slogan “We are said Hazem el-Mallah, spokesman for the exported from Lebanon and apparently heading for the with you... a safe decent life for every child.” “Children Without Shelter” program. MARAWI: Philippine authorities yesterday said the surrender call was aimed at limiting Czech Republic. An investigation was launched by They train the youngsters in first aid, and at Continued on Page 13 warned Islamist militants occupying parts of a the loss of more lives and property. Up to German and Czech authorities “and it revealed that the southern city to surrender or die, as attack heli- 2,000 residents were trapped in areas held by real intended destination was Saudi Arabia, by passing copters pounded the gunmen’s strongholds the militants, according to the local govern- through Turkey”, the agency said. Another 67 kilo- where up to 2,000 residents were feared ment, and the International Committee of the grammes of the drug were found at the airport in trapped. More than 100 people have been Red Cross voiced alarm they would be caught February, hidden in steel moulds. confirmed killed in the conflict, which began in the bombing raids or crossfire. last week when gunmen waving black flags of “The risks and the vulnerabilities of the Noriega dies at 83 the Islamic State (IS) group rampaged through people inside Marawi are rising every day,” PANAMA CITY: Former Panamanian dictator Manuel the mostly Muslim-populated city of Marawi.