World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is observed around the world every year on May 31.
It is intended to encourage a 24-hour period of abstinence from all forms of tobacco consumption around the globe. The day is further intended to draw attention to the widespread prevalence of tobacco use and to negative health effects, which currently lead to nearly 6 million deaths each year worldwide, including 600,000 of which are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke
See more:
- Free Tabacco initiative
- Who we work with
- All World No Tobacco Days
- Implementing tobacco control
- Surveillance and monitoring
- Tobacco control economics
- WHO recommendations for the prevention
- WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic
- Watching and countering the industry
- Quitting tobacco
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