The day without tobacco was introduced on May 31, 1987, it is no coincidence. The World Health Organization has been on this decision for a long time. The number of people unable to live without a cigarette is more than 650 million people on the planet. A huge mass of people suffer from someone else's poison, they inhale smoke, not themselves being active smokers. Up to five million people go to another world because of diseases resulting from regular poisoning with nicotine, primarily lung cancer . The pleasure of smoking closes their eyes to the possible consequences, and at that time the lungs, blood vessels, heart and other organs slowly turn into ruins. Therefore, something immediately had to be done, to raise the public and influence in some way the governments of all developed countries without exception.
World No Tobacco Day this year
This year, WHO decided to conduct an anti-smoking campaign using the slogan: "Reducing levels of tobacco consumption, saving lives." First of all, we are talking about raising taxes on a variety of tobacco products. This measure, though it hits the pocket of smokers, but it somewhat reduces the consumption of nicotine. The increase in the tax rate by 10% can reduce the sale of tobacco products from 4% to 5%, depending on the region.
World No Tobacco Day includes various events - round tables, thematic TV shows, newspaper articles, meetings at enterprises. All of them should be directed to the company on the prohibition of cigarette advertising, an explanation of the dangers of smoking. Especially on the International Tobacco Day, we need to strengthen our work with young people. It is noticed that the earlier people abandon this habit, the more chances they have to live a long happy life, avoiding various illnesses due to the poisoning of their body with tobacco smoke.