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World No Tobacco Day

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Updated: 2011-06-01 12:58
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World No Tobacco Day
Editor’s note:

World No Tobacco Day is celebrated every year on May 31 to remind the worldwide people the danger of smoking with the ultimate aim to let tobacco retreat from our daily life.

Harms

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  • The statistics on the official website of WHO shows that the tobacco epidemic kills nearly 6 million people each year: more than 5 million users and ex users and more than 600 000 nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke.
  • After high blood pressure, tobacco use is the biggest contributor to the epidemic of noncommunicable diseases— such as heart attack, stroke, cancer and emphysema — which accounts for 63% of deaths.
  • No consumer product kills as many people and as needlessly as does tobacco. It killed 100 million people in the 20th century. Unless we act, it could kill up to 1 billion people in the 21st. All of these deaths will have been entirely preventable. 

    (Sources from WHO)

Activities

Since May 1 China had banned smoking in all indoor public and work places as required by the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. 

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A "No Smoking" sign is displayed in a restaurant in central Beijing May 1, 2011. [Photo/Agencies]

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A boarder reading “No smoking” is put on the wall in a ticket hall at the railway station in Jiujiang city, East China’s Jiangxi province, April 30, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua]

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More than 200 students form a huge no-smoking sign covering over 40 square meters in Tanbu Central Primary School in Dexing city, East China’s Jiangxi province, May 30, 2011. [Photo/CFP]

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Students from a primary school in Hefei city, capital of East China’s Anhui province, publicize the harm of smoking to passers-by and call for controlling smoking, May 30, 2011. [Photo/CFP]

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Students from Yangzhou University come to Weiyang Primary School to organize an activity themed no smoking and sign their names on a poster to support smoking ban, May 30, 2011. [Photo/CFP]

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Pupils in Zaozhuang city, East China's Shandong province, collect cigarette butts on May 30, 2011, to add to a warning board reading "cancer" in Chinese, to call for people to quit smoking. The activity was held to commemorate World No-Tobacco Day, which falls on May 31. [Photo/Xinhua]

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The cleaners in Xiangyang No 1 People’s hospital in Xiangyang city, Central China’s Hubei province, show their smoking supervisor cards on May 30, 2011. [Photo/CFP]

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Students from Xiaoxiang Primary School in Yantai city, East China's Shandong province, lift a banner on May 30, reading "Welcome World No-Tobacco Day on May 31", as well as six posters warning in Chinese, "Smoking is harmful to health".[Photo/Xinhua]