World No Tobacco Day

World No Tobacco Day is observed on May 31 every year. It gives tobacco users a fresh opportunity to determine and lead a healthier life.

World No Tobacco Day focuses on spreading awareness about the dangers of using tobacco and how a number of health problems can be better tackled by doctors or averted when one quits smoking. The WHO says, ''Today can be Day 1'' in an effort to quit tobacco.

World No Tobacco Day 2021 theme and campaign: Commit to Quit

Quit tobacco to be a winner. There are several campaign materials, which can be used widely to tell people the dangers of using tobacco. You can also post on Twitter and other social media platforms, pictures and ideas of what can be done in our neighbourhoods to help people quit tobacco using Commit ToQuit.

World No Tobacco Day: How it started

In 1987, the Member States of the World Health Organization started the World No Tobacco Day. The aim was to ''draw global attention to the tobacco epidemic and the preventable death and disease it causes.'' The World Health Assembly passed a resolution marking April 7, 1988 to be a "a world no-smoking day." After the resolution was passed, World No Tobacco Day on 31 May every year became a big day for health and community workers to go all out and help people quit tobacco.

According to 2018 research published in the SAGE Journal, India is the second-largest consumer of tobacco. Not just this, as per WHO, 8 million people die every year due to adverse effects of Tobacco.

Harmful Effects of Tobacco

Tobacco can cause various serious diseases, such as lung diseases, tuberculosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) etc. Not just this, it can also lead to lung cancer and oral cancer. According to the data by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), tobacco accounts for approximately 30 per cent of all cancers in India.