The theme for this year's World No Tobacco Day is Gender and Tobacco, with an emphasis on marketing to women. WHO will use the day to draw particular attention to the harmful effects of tobacco marketing and smoke on women and girls.
The World Health Assembly created World No Tobacco Day in 1987 to draw global attention to the tobacco epidemic and its lethal effects. It provides an opportunity to highlight specific tobacco control messages and to promote adherence to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Tobacco use is the number one preventable epidemic that the health community faces.
Related links
- World No Tobacco Day site- WHO's Tobacco Free Initiative
- More about tobacco abuse and control
Source: World Health Organization (WHO)
whats the used, i mean they know that this is dangerous to our health but still they let people sell tabaccos in public and they allow it but at the back of the cegarrettes cartoon cigareetes smoking is dangerous to ur health, what a hypochracy
ReplyDeleteAliza,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that all the warnings about the danger of smoking is just a hypocrisy. While the cigarette producers are still free to promote and sell cigarettes.
I'd say go to the root of the industry..tobacco growing. Its pointless to cure the symptoms and not the cause.
ReplyDeleteUmihoney,
ReplyDeleteI agree that the root of problem is
the tobacco.
But unfortunately almost impossible to ban tobacco because tobacco plantations and cigarette factories provide employments for so many people.
The best thing would be to limit the circulation of cigarettes, reduce ads, limit place for smoking, and higher tax for tobacco.
I'm happy to find every day no tobacco day for me :)
ReplyDeleteIt all began when somebody took a trial on how-to-smoke passion. Then he slipped on to the addiction...
ReplyDelete@Edwin,
ReplyDeleteThat makes us both the same, every day is a no tobacco day!
@Blog Ekspor Impor,
Yes, that's how it start. So it is important to forbid people from smoking in public area.
Has anyone seen the recent anti smoking campaign ad showing the lungs like a plastic membrane and a cigarette applied to the lung burning it out one hole at a time? Pretty scary.
ReplyDeletei still close with a cigars...
ReplyDeletei will stop smoking...!
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ReplyDeleteI haven't seen that ad but I can imagine how scary it is.
@Secangkir Teh dan Sekerat Roti,
To smoke or not to smoke is a choice. If you want to live healthily you should stop it.
@Randi,
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Paolo,
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unfortunately it is not easy to quit smoking ...
ReplyDeleteMisterXWebz,
ReplyDeleteAlthough not easy to quit smoking but if we really want to stop than we can surely do it.
Well yes, countries like the UK first destroy their own forests and then send Sting to tell others not to do it...
ReplyDeleteFred Arriaga,
ReplyDeletePrecisely my friend, thank you for dropping by.