In which year will smoking be banned in all countries?

On February 1, 1909, the International Smoking Committee meeting was held at the Huizhong Hotel on the Bund in Shanghai, China. It was known in history as the "Universal Anti-Smoking Meeting." 41 representatives from 13 countries including China, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Siam (today's Thailand), and Persia (today's Iran) gathered together,* **Business plan to ban smoking.

The "Universal Anti-Smoking Conference" was the world's first international anti-drug conference. The conference led to the conclusion of the first international anti-drug convention - the 1912 "Hague Smoking Convention", which effectively promoted the world's anti-drug struggle. Therefore, the International Anti-Smoking Conference is a milestone in the history of international anti-drugs.

The theme of the meeting is to discuss the global drug epidemic problem, coordinate various positions and discuss common countermeasures. The Shanghai International Anti-Smoking Conference was the first multilateral international anti-drug conference in human history. It confirmed for the first time that opium and other drugs must be banned worldwide, and for the first time aroused the attention of governments of various countries to drugs. Most of the main contents of the conference resolutions were adopted by the subsequent Hague Anti-drug Convention and became the universal principles for international joint anti-drug control.