Information about World No Tobacco Day

The World Health Organization made a decision in 1987, and designated May 3 1 every year as World No Tobacco Day. This move warns people that smoking is harmful to health, calls on "smokers" all over the world to stop smoking or quit smoking from now on, and calls on all businessmen not to sell cigarettes on this day.

1990, the World Health Organization chose "Teenagers don't smoke" as the theme of World No Tobacco Day this year. At the third "World No Tobacco Day" symposium held in China, relevant experts called for: tobacco control should start with teenagers, and also stressed that teenagers should start from an early age; The education department should make full use of the educational position, strengthen the management of students, and absolutely prohibit primary and secondary school students from smoking.

According to related newspaper reports, the smoking rate of teenagers in China has been rising in recent years. If it is not controlled, by 2025, the total number of people who died of smoking in China will rise from the current 654.38 million to 2 million.

According to the survey, adolescent smoking has become a social problem that cannot be ignored in China. More than 70% smokers in China started smoking at the age of 15 ~ 25. In order to promote the in-depth development of tobacco control in China, it is necessary to put an end to adolescent smoking.

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Tobacco is a wild plant growing in South America. At first, Indians chewed tobacco leaves or made them into cigarettes to burn and smoke. Tobacco has prevailed in the world for more than 200 years, and it was not until the 20th century that human beings began to realize the harm of tobacco to human beings. From 65438 to 0977, the American Cancer Society first put forward a publicity and education method to control smoking-No Tobacco Day.

On this day, the United States launched a nationwide "smoking is harmful to health" publicity campaign to discourage smokers from smoking that day, and shops stopped selling tobacco products for one day.

The United States has designated the Thursday of the third week of June 165438+ 10 as its own No Tobacco Day. Since then, Britain, Malaysia, China and other countries and regions have also formulated No Tobacco Days. 1987, 165438+ 10. In October, the United Nations World Health Organization suggested that April 7th of each year be designated as "World No Tobacco Day", which will be implemented in June of 438+0988.

However, since April 7th is the anniversary of the establishment of the World Health Organization, on this day every year, the World Health Organization will put forward a theme health care requirement. In order not to interfere with the presentation of its health theme, the World Health Organization decided from 1989 to designate May 3 1 as World No Tobacco Day, and China also designated this day as China No Tobacco Day.

Reference source; Baidu Encyclopedia-World No Tobacco Day