World No Tobacco Day is held around the world on 31 May each year. It is encouraged smoker to avoid tobacco consumption and its related products for at least 24 hours. This day is now intended to draw global attention to the widespread of tobacco use and to make people aware of the health problems which tobacco use can cause.
World No Tobacco Day was created by the member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1987. According to the WHO, tobacco use is one of the leading preventable causes of death. However, there are nearly 6 million of people were killed each year by tobacco use.
This year the theme for World No Tobacco Day is Tobacco Industry Interference. The campaign will centre on the necessity to expose and counter the tobacco industry’s brazen and increasingly aggressive attempts to undermine global tobacco control efforts.
As we all know the harmful effect of smoking, now is an opportunity to quit smoking and stay quit!
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