The "Emirates Today" tour monitors tobacco stores opening their doors to children at the age of seven
"Dizziness on the Fly": the price is one dirham... and the customer is a child... and the regulatory bodies are "absent".
Children accept “dizziness on the fly” because it is done away from the eyes of the parents. Photo: Osama Abu Ghanem
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With only one dirham, the child (who may not be more than seven years old) enters the smoking shop and receives a dose of “dizziness on the fly” as it is called. Dubai, Sharjah and Ajman, during the past three days.
■ Joint "medawikh" laden with diseases, which are passed between the mouths of customers... and merchants: "first dizziness" is free of charge. ■ A shop holding a sign “forbidden for anyone under the age of 18” sells tobacco to a 12-year-old child. ■ The low price of "medwakh" tobacco encourages many groups to smoke it, especially teenagers. Watch the video.. Dukha for a dirham The editor of "Emirates Today" experimented with smoking the medwakh, encouraged by a seller of the nationality of an Asian country in a store in Ajman. It shows the seller preparing the common meduk in the shop, and all customers use it, and he talks about it being offered only one dirham. Where is the anti-tobacco law? For his part, a member of the National Tobacco Control Program said that what was monitored by the "Emirates Today" tour reveals that the most important articles of the tobacco control law are "just ink on paper." He added, "The law was issued to be implemented, but the reality reveals that the most important articles of the law are still locked up, and municipalities and economic departments do not perform their oversight role, and do not release violations for violating traders who deliver these poisons to the bodies of our children, nor do they submit them to the judicial authorities according to what the law stipulates." Finally, he said, he conducted a practical test that revealed a violation of the law, as he parked his car in front of a smoke shop in Dubai, and asked his daughter, who is no more than 15 years old, to buy Dokha from the store. Regardless of her age. He stressed that the National Tobacco Control Program organized several workshops for representatives of economic departments and municipal employees at the headquarters of the Ministry of Health in Dubai, to familiarize them with the law and its executive regulations, which stressed the need to implement the law after the long period that lasted from 2009 to 2014, and also confirmed that the municipalities The economic departments are entrusted with apprehending the violators and bringing them to justice, which has not happened so far. break the law The Tobacco Control Law, passed in 2009, penalizes anyone who sells tobacco products to those under the age of 18. The executive regulations of the law prohibit the sale of tobacco products near schools, institutes, colleges, places of worship, or near sports facilities. It also prohibits selling tobacco products near payment points in stores or selling them next to foodstuffs. |
The “dizziness on the fly” is for the store to place one or more medwakhs on the reception counter (ready for use), to enter the customer and take a dose in exchange for a dirham, then he leaves or repeats it again, and of course the “medwakh” is transmitted between the lips from a child to a boy to a young man , without realizing that they are receiving a potentially dangerous disease-laden dose, transmitted to them through this common tool.
The tour started from the city of Ajman, which includes a large number of tobacco shops, run by traders, most of whom are Iranian, who display several types of tobacco, including hookahs and its accessories, in addition to cigarettes and modern electronic smoking tools, while they allocate large areas for "medwakh".
common "medwakh"
In the first store we entered, the surprise was, a 16-year-old boy, who seems to frequent the shop a lot, handed the seller a dirham, and the latter gave him a “dumpling” which he put on the sales counter. With great enjoyment.
The scene that amazed us is a regular thing in these stores, as the boy recounts, as the sellers put “medwakh” for common use, as the customer enters the store and pays a dirham, and gets a dose of “dizziness”, or as they call it “the breath of dizziness on the fly”, which is a phenomenon Children accept it because it is done away from the eyes of the parents, and it is difficult to discover it because it is done in a place that parents often do not go to.
The “medwakh” moves from one lips to another, carrying types of viruses and diseases of saliva, without any indifference from the parties to the process, whether shop owners or smokers, and without any fear of the regulatory agencies that are supposed to monitor those stores and address their violations.
The boy said that he “gets this dose for a dirham every few hours, and he cannot smoke twice in a row at the same time, because the dizziness is strong, and its effect reaches the brain in a few seconds, so that he immediately feels very dizzy,” noting that sometimes he gets a drug. Free smoke potion gift from seller.
Another child narrated that "this dizziness is offered to children and young people without any caveats, and it is in great demand, especially from school students, which the newspaper confirmed to be true, as sellers provide the dose of dizziness for children aged seven years and above."
Free "dizziness"
The same scene was repeated in several stores in Dubai and Sharjah, and the price of the dose ranged between one and two dirhams, and it was remarkable that a number of sellers (who do not know the identity of the editor of “Emirates Today”), gave him “dizziness” for free, a kind of definition of this type of tobacco, trying Motivating him to smoke it permanently, and said that they offer the dose free of charge to anyone who enters the store as a kind of welcome and hospitality, as they put it.
During the newspaper’s tour in Ajman, a 10-year-old went to a smoke shop, and easily bought a medwakh package to smoke with his school-student friends, and his father discovered the incident, went to the store and got into a severe fight with the seller, who explained that he did not know that selling tobacco is prohibited to children.
In another store, the seller raised a handwritten sign stating that he does not sell tobacco products to anyone under the age of 18. By chance, a 12-year-old boy came in and asked for honey, shisha charcoal and a pack of cigarettes, and got them without any objection from the seller.
When I asked the editor, the seller, how he introduced him to the youngsters, he replied: “Some children at the age of seven years smoke dokha, and they buy it heavily, and this is common here, and sellers sell to those who want to buy.”
“The Medwakh” is two dirhams
Although Sharjah applies strict laws to combat smoking, tobacco stores sell dokha without any precautions, and students smoke through the common “medwakh” for two dirhams, and some of them buy dokha to smoke with their friends on the streets.
It is noteworthy that the simple price of "medwakh" tobacco encourages many groups to smoke it, especially those in their teenage years, as the price of a "medwakh" package is less than the price of any type of cigarette.
"Medwakh Take Away"
The same scenario was repeated in Dubai, and some Dokha stores were offering tobacco (takeaway) to young people in their cars, so as soon as the seller saw a luxury car standing in front of the shop, he hurried to find out the demand, then he brought “medwakh” tobacco and presented it to the car’s passengers without considering their ages, and some of them are younger About 15 years old.
The head of the Health, Labor and Social Affairs Committee in the Federal National Council, Salem Balrakad Al-Amiri, comments on the sale of dokha to children as a violation of the anti-tobacco law, adding: “The sale of dokha to children under 18 is a violation of the articles of the law issued in 2009, and its regulation was applied executive at the beginning of last year.
He continued, "Municipalities and economic departments must monitor these stores that violate the anti-tobacco law, and submit them to the judicial authorities in order to apply the penalties stipulated by law by imprisonment or a fine."
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