Information about World No Tobacco Day

The World Health Organization made a decision in 1987 to designate May 31st each year as World No Tobacco Day. This move warns people that smoking is harmful to health, calls on "smokers" around the world to stop smoking or quit smoking on this day, and calls on all businessmen not to sell cigarettes on this day.

In 1990, the World Health Organization chose "Youth should not smoke" as the theme of this year's World No Tobacco Day. At the third "World No Tobacco Day" symposium held in our country, relevant experts called for: the control of smoking should start from young people, and also emphasized that the control of young people's smoking should start from an early age; the education department should make full use of the educational position to strengthen the supervision of students. Management should absolutely prohibit smoking among primary and secondary school students.

According to relevant newspaper reports, the smoking rate among teenagers in my country has been increasing in recent years. If it is not controlled, the total number of people who die from smoking every year in my country will rise from the current 100,000 to 2 million by 2025.

According to surveys, adolescent smoking has become a social problem that cannot be ignored in our country. More than 70% of smokers in our country started smoking between the ages of 15 and 25. In order to promote the further development of smoking control in our country, we must put an end to youth smoking.

Extended information

Tobacco is a wild plant growing in South America. Originally, the Indians chewed the leaves or made them into cigarettes, burned them and sucked them. Tobacco has been popular around the world for more than 200 years. It was not until the 20th century that humans began to realize the harm of tobacco to humans. In 1977, the American Cancer Society first proposed a publicity and education method to control smoking-No Tobacco Day.

On this day, "smoking is harmful to health" propaganda is carried out nationwide in the United States, smokers are discouraged from smoking on that day, and stores stop selling tobacco products for one day.

The United States designates the Thursday of the third week of November as its country’s No Tobacco Day. Since then, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, China and other countries and regions have also successively established no-smoking days. In November 1987, the United Nations World Health Organization recommended April 7 every year as "World No Tobacco Day", which came into effect in 1988.

But because April 7 is the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization, on this day every year, the World Health Organization will propose a theme of health care requirements. In order not to interfere with its health theme, the World Health Organization decided to designate May 31st every year as World No Tobacco Day from 1989, and China also designated this day as China's No Tobacco Day.

Reference source; Baidu Encyclopedia-World No Tobacco Day