Jordanian families spend “more on cigarettes than food,” a World Health Organization official told FM station Radio al-Balad in Amman on Sunday. The kingdom has one of the highest rates of smokers in the world with 66% of males over 18 smoking cigarettes and/or shisha – and another 16.5% using nicotine substitutes. Smoking in Jordan is widespread in schools, government buildings and even hospitals, said the WHO. According to one study commissioned by the Jordanian ministry of health, tobacco smoking accounts for a loss of around 6% GDP per year in the country. During the COVID pandemic, Jordan…