According to Elie Lahoud, head of "Youth against drugs" association, 5000 people die in Lebanon yearly because of smoking. Percentages of people who smoke in Lebanon are very high, yet the solution is very simple and consists of increasing the very cheap price of cigarettes and secondly of banning it in public places.

Lady Yvonne Sursock Cochrane presided the APSAD, Association for the Protection of the Natural Sites and Ancient Buildings, for 40 years and is still fighting to preserve Lebanon’s heritage, although pessimistic about prospects. The Sursock palace is one of the most beautiful houses in Beirut, yet is nowadays being surrounded by skycrappers. Well there are good ministers, but nobody listens to them! Tamam Salam made a series of good proposals; none of them passed. Warde…