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Dubai: Efforts to curb tobacco use in the community are ongoing, despite the lack of unified anti-tobacco legislation in the UAE, one year before the country has to show its commitment to a world health body.

As a signatory to the World Health Organisation-Framework Convention of Tobacco Control (WHO-FCTC), the UAE is required to submit a progress report on its tobacco control efforts by February next year.

Dr Maryam Mattar, assistant undersecretary for primary healthcare and public health at the Ministry of Health, told Gulf News that the legislation would come as soon as possible, but they could not remain idle in the meantime.
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“We cannot wait for legislation before intervention. [Health initiatives and legislative work] are moving in parallel,” she said. Currently, legislation regulating smoking and tobacco use are being implemented at the emirate level.

Dubai has taken the lead in this, by being the first to ban smoking in public places, to be done in phases from public departments to shopping malls. Exact details will be announced tonight.

Dr Layla Al Marzouqi, cardiologist at Dubai Hospital and anti-smoking activist, told Gulf News that the move would succeed this time because the community was more aware.

“It’s a good first step even if it is small. It will be successful because people are becoming less tolerant of smokers. Smokers support this because they want to give up but don’t have the willpower,” she said. Which is where the Health Ministry comes in, by increasing the number of anti-smoking clinics and services in the UAE.

“Our commitment is not only stronger, but we have projects in the community (that have a realistic chance of success),” Dr Maryam said.

The projects include giving free consultation to patients, and selling nicotine replacement therapies and smoking cessation medicines at half price for patients holding health cards from the Ministry of Health, she added.

The ministry has also set up its sixth anti-smoking clinic, and the only anti-smoking clinic in Dubai, in Jumeirah, which began operations today.

Dr Maryam said the ministry will also strengthen its anti-smoking clinic in Ras Al Khaimah by extending the hours and increasing staff, and attach anti-smoking departments to primary healthcare centres in all emirates to “seek out smokers and help them to quit.”

Cell phone maker Motorola Inc. said Wednesday it will cut another 4,000 jobs as part of a plan aimed at improving sagging financial and operational results.

The company already is in the process of eliminating 3,500 jobs as part of a two-year cost-cutting plan to save $400 million. Those layoffs, announced in January, are to be completed by June 30, it said.

Motorola said it will save another $600 million in 2008 by cutting 4,000 more workers, prioritizing investments and putting controls on discretionary spending and general and administrative expenses.

“Long-term, sustainable profitability is - and always has been - Motorola’s top priority,” Chief Financial Officer Tom Meredith said. “Today’s actions are an update to the commitment we made … to drive out additional costs, and a continuation of the plan we announced in January.”

The Schaumburg-based company said it expects to take a restructuring charge of $300 million, or 8 cents per share in 2007, from severance and related expenses from staff cuts.

Motorola began efforts to cut back in January after a series of miscues that caused the company to lose about a third of its market value since October.

This spring, the company posted its first quarterly loss since 2004 and executives hinted those measures hadn’t gone far enough. Wall Street was anticipating more cuts.

Motorola shares gained 17 cents in extended-hours trading after closing the regular session up 2 cents to $18.28.

“We are taking steps to ensure that, as these cost reductions are implemented, there will be no adverse impact on customer service and support, product quality and those research and development programs that are expected to contribute meaningfully to Motorola’s revenues, profits and cash flow in 2008 and beyond,” said Greg Brown, president and chief operating officer.

Warm Air and Warm Water Combine to Create Destructive Storms

The two essential ingredients in every hurricane are warm water and moist warm air. That’s why hurricanes begin in the tropics.

Most Atlantic hurricanes start to take shape when thunderstorms along the west coast of Africa drift out over warm ocean waters that are at least 80 degrees Fahrenheit (27 degrees Celsius), where they encounter converging winds from around the equator.

Warm Air, Warm Water Make Conditions Right for Hurricanes
Hurricanes start when warm, moist air from the ocean surface begins to rise rapidly, where it encounters cooler air that causes the warm water vapor to condense and to form storm clouds and drops of rain. The condensation also releases latent heat, which warms the cool air above, causing it to rise and make way for more warm humid air from the ocean below.
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As this cycle continues, more warm moist air is drawn into the developing storm and more heat is transferred from the surface of the ocean to the atmosphere. This continuing heat exchange creates a wind pattern that spirals around a relatively calm center, or eye, like water swirling down a drain.

Converging Winds Create Hurricanes
Converging winds near the surface of the water collide, pushing more water vapor upward, increasing the circulation of warm air, and accelerating the speed of the wind. At the same time, strong winds blowing steadily at higher altitudes pull the rising warm air away from the storm’s center and send it swirling into the hurricane’s classic cyclone pattern.

High-pressure air at high altitudes, usually above 30,000 feet (9,000 meters), also pull heat away from the storm’s center and cool the rising air. As high-pressure air is drawn into the low-pressure center of the storm, the speed of the wind continues to increase.

As the storm builds from thunderstorm to hurricane, it passes through three distinct stages based on wind speed:

* Tropical depression—wind speeds of less than 38 miles per hour (61.15 kilometers per hour)

* Tropical storm—wind speeds of 39 mph to 73 mph (62.76 kph to 117.48 kph)

* Hurricane—wind speeds greater than 74 mph (119.09 kph)

Scientists Debate Cause of Temperature Changes that Create Hurricanes
While scientists agree on the mechanics of hurricane formation, and they agree that hurricanes are becoming more frequent and severe, that’s where consensus ends.

Some scientists believe that human activity already has contributed significantly to global warming, which is increasing air and water temperatures worldwide and making it easier for hurricanes to form and gain destructive force.

Other scientists believe that the increase in severe hurricanes over the past decade is due to natural salinity and temperature changes deep in the Atlantic—part of a natural environmental cycle that shifts back and forth every 40-60 years.

Frequency and Severity of Hurricanes Likely to Increase
While the scientific community debates the root cause of the temperature changes that are contributing to the current increase in destructive hurricanes, three things are apparent:

* Air and water temperatures are rising worldwide.

* Human activities such as deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions from a wide range of industrial and agricultural processes are contributing to those temperature changes at a greater rate today than in the past.

* Failure to take action now to lower atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases is likely to lead to more frequent and severe hurricanes in the future.

The U.N. health agency on Tuesday issued its strongest policy recommendations yet for controlling tobacco use, urging all countries to ban smoking at indoor workplaces and in public buildings.

Smoking is forbidden in nearly three out of four U.S. households, a dramatic increase from the 43 percent of homes that prohibited smoking a decade ago
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“The evidence is clear. There is no safe level of exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke,” said Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization.

Tobacco use is the world’s leading cause of preventable death, accounting for 10 percent of adult fatalities, according to WHO. It is responsible for 5.4 million deaths each year, a figure that is expected to rise to 8.3 million by 2030, the agency says.

Increasing numbers of nonsmokers will also die unless governments take action, WHO said in its 50-page report. It said governments of both rich and poor countries should declare all public indoor places smoke-free, by passing laws and actively enforcing measures to ensure that “everyone has a right to breathe clean air, free from tobacco smoke.”

At least 200,000 workers die each year because of exposure to smoke at their offices and factories, according to the U.N. labor agency. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that about 3,000 deaths from lung cancer each year occur among nonsmoking Americans. “This is not about shaming the smoker. This is not even about banning smoking,” said Dr. Armando Peruga, who heads WHO’s anti-tobacco campaign. “This is about society taking decisions about where to smoke and where not to smoke.”

He cited Ireland and Uruguay as governments that have successfully tackled smoking by creating and enforcing smoke-free environments. Legislation of the kind has proved popular among both smokers and nonsmokers, according to WHO, whose policy recommendations set broad goals for its 193 member states but are not legally binding.

Almost half the world’s children — some 700 million — are exposed to air polluted by tobacco smoke, particularly at home, WHO says. The agency made its recommendations on the basis of new reports by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the U.S. surgeon general and the California Environmental Protection Agency.

WHO said in 2005 that it had stopped hiring smokers, as part of what it termed its “public lead” in the fight against tobacco.

Well known for inexpensive goods, Wal-Mart is said to fall behind in sales of upscale merchandise.

A confidential report prepared for senior executives at Wal-Mart Stores concludes, in stark terms, that the chain’s traditional strengths — its reputation for discounts, its all-in-one shopping format and its enormous selection — “work against us” as it tries to move upscale.

As a result, the report says, the chain “is not seen as a smart choice” for clothing, home décor, electronics, prescriptions and groceries, categories the retailer has identified as priorities as it tries to turn around its slipping store sales, a decline likely to be emphasized Friday during Wal-Mart’s shareholder meeting.

“The Wal-Mart brand,” the report says, “was not built to inspire people while they shop, hold their hand while they make a high-risk decision or show them how to pull things together.”

The document, prepared in October 2006 by the company’s former advertising agency and based on interviews with scores of consumers, offers a candid, wide-ranging explanation for why Wal-Mart, the No. 1 seller of everything from laundry detergent to underwear, has stumbled badly when it comes to higher-end merchandise like silk camisoles and shag accent rugs.

The report contends, for example, that “our low prices actually suggest low quality” for products like high-definition televisions. And it says that Target, with its designer-inspired clothing and furniture, feels “like the ‘new and improved,’ while Wal-Mart often feels like the ‘old and outdated.’ ”

A copy of the 55-page report, written by GSD&M Advertising, was provided to The New York Times by WakeUpWalMart.com, a union-financed group highly critical of the retailer. The group said that a person outside of Wal-Mart gave it the report.

GSD&M, which has worked with Wal-Mart since 1974, submitted the report as part of an elaborate campaign to remain Wal-Mart’s ad agency after the retailer said that it might choose a replacement last year. Ultimately, Wal-Mart chose other firms.

Nick Agarwal, a spokesman for Wal-Mart, said that the seven-month-old report was “out of date and, in some areas, it is just plain wrong.” Sales in the chain’s pharmacy, electronics and grocery departments, for instance, are very strong, he said. GSD&M, a division of the Omnicom Group based in Austin, Tex., declined to comment.

Its report is at times prescient. As Wal-Mart’s clothing and home furnishing businesses have struggled, sales at stores open for at least a year fell to the lowest levels in decades over the last 12 months, well below those of Target. The figures are not expected to improve much over the next year, unsettling investors.

The GSD&M document offers a rare glimpse of the concerns that are buffeting Wal-Mart’s retailing empire, from its flagging corporate reputation to the “near catastrophic” economic pressures faced by its working-class consumers.

Wal-Mart attracts 138 million shoppers a week, a staggering figure unmatched in American retailing, but the portion of Americans who say the chain is their No. 1 destination for discount shopping has fallen from about 75 percent two years ago to 67 percent today, according to the report.

No specific explanation for the drop-off is provided, but Wal-Mart’s ad agency suggested a combination of factors, like stiff competition and public relations troubles. Those troubles have included a sex discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of 1.6 million female current and former employees and firings of top executives, like the former vice chairman Thomas M. Coughlin, for stealing company funds.

Wal-Mart’s rating as a company that consumers trust and respect “steadily declined” over the last two years, the report said, as labor groups and elected leaders criticized its wages, benefits and practices. “While corporate respect may not be a highly rated driver of store choice,” it said, “this intangible quality cannot be underestimated.”

Wal-Mart has said that its own analysis has found that just 0.04 percent of customers have stopped shopping at Wal-Mart because of its reputation.

Chris Kofinis, director of communications at WakeUpWalMart.com, said, “Wal-Mart needs to realize that improving its public image and its business reputation demands they stop ignoring the fact that the American people care about values, not just value.”

The report by GSD&M also says several big-box rivals are meeting shoppers’ needs better than Wal-Mart. Best Buy, for example, provides “information and knowledge” to help buy electronics, the report says. Kohl’s provides “a wide selection of brand-name apparel” displayed “in a stylish environment that inspires browsing,” it says. And Bed, Bath & Beyond has “great displays that provide ideas on how to pull looks together,” it adds.

The economy is not helping matters, the report says. After living through the “decade of affluence” in the 1990s, Americans may now be entering the “decade of retreat” as real wages remain flat, fuel prices spike and consumer debt reaches all-time highs, it says, adding, “We have a crisis in the making for America’s working and middle classes.”

A significant portion of the report portrays Wal-Mart positively. In interviews, shoppers said the chain saves them money, time and stress, which suggests that the retailer’s low-price heritage is “as relevant today as it ever was.” Asked by GSD&M to describe Wal-Mart as if it were a person, some consumers compared it to a handyman, a grandmother and Uncle Sam. The report also asserts that “for most people and for most shopping occasions, Wal-Mart is the smart choice.”

The bulk of the report, however, examines the challenges facing Wal-Mart as it tries to transform itself from a chain focused on basic household items sold at low prices into one known for style.

Wal-Mart’s 200,000-square-foot stores, brightly lighted, minimally decorated and teeming with signs for price rollbacks, have served the chain well for much of the last 40 years.

But now, as Wal-Mart experiments with contemporary clothing, flat-screen televisions and nine-layer lasagna, that format has become a hindrance. To a shopper who wants to purchase a single dress for an evening out or a DVD player to watch a movie, “Wal-Mart’s one-stop shopping format becomes a time-consuming irrelevant obstacle,” the report says.

That environment is conducive to “zero-time” shopping, in which a customer spends just a few seconds thinking about a product, like a new bottle of dishwashing soap. “But people don’t buy electronics, home décor and apparel in zero time,” the report says.

“They shop for them,” it continues. “Those are slow-time shopping trips that require, unique, slow-time environments that provide a level of service, a sense of style and an array of ideas that inspires shopping.”

Wal-Mart’s advertising agency recommended a series of solutions, though the company has so far not adopted most of them. For electronics, it suggested creating a no-hassle, no-questions-asked returns policy that would make people feel more comfortable buying expensive televisions and stereo systems.