The scent of cigarette smoke is everywhere; the offices we work in, the supermarkets we shop at, the malls we frequent. Sometimes it seems that Kuwait is a breeding ground for smokers, and the anti smoking campaigns are not yielding any results. It’s time to stop talking to the smokers, but to their friends. To the ones caught between two smokers every day at the office, at lunch, or at a dinner gathering. It’s time we talk to ourselves, the ones who keep saying “excuse me, can you please put that out?”

On October 1 is our day to rise up against smoking! We’re calling for a 24 hour cigarette ban across the GULF! Get as many of your smoker friends to stop for one day and let us all breath in clean air in our offices, home, and gatherings, if only just for a day. Help your smoker friends see, feel, and smell the benefit of not smoking, if only for a day. The Saif House for community based initiatives has teamed up with other organisations to help you, the non-smoker, get your smoker friends to stop smoking just for a day. Why? As a non-smoker we think you already know why but here are a few simple facts that our smoker friends, whom we love dearly, choose to ignore.