Tag: World No Tobacco Day

• Friday, May 31st 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  World No Tobacco Day: the damage tobacco causes to lung health

  

  On World No Tobacco Day (31 May), the World Health Organization is highlighting the damage tobacco causes to lung health: over 40% of all tobacco-related deaths are from lung diseases like cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and tuberculosis. WHO is calling on countries and partners to increase action to protect people from exposure to tobacco.

• Thursday, July 20th 2017 - 17:04 UTC

  England targeting a “smoke-free generation” by 2022

  

  England can become “smoke free”, ministers have said, as they announced plans to cut the number of smokers. Unveiling its new Tobacco Control Plan, the UK Government set out a range of targets aimed at adult smokers, teenagers and pregnant women.

• Wednesday, May 31st 2017 - 05:52 UTC

  World No Tobacco Day 2017: for health, prosperity, the environment and national development

  

  Action to stamp out tobacco use can help countries prevent millions of people falling ill and dying from tobacco-related disease, combat poverty and, according to a first-ever WHO report, reduce large-scale environmental degradation.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2016 - 06:16 UTC

  World No Tobacco Day, 31 May 2016: Get ready for plain packaging

  

  Recent moves to introduce plain (standardized) packaging of tobacco products can save lives by reducing demand for tobacco products, say the World Health Organization (WHO) and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Secretariat (WHO FCTC).

• Friday, May 29th 2015 - 09:22 UTC

  WHO calls for action against illicit tobacco trade on World No Tobacco Day

  

  Eliminating the illicit trade in tobacco would generate an annual tax windfall of 31 billion dollars for governments, improve public health, help cut crime and curb an important revenue source for the tobacco industry. Those are the key themes of World No Tobacco Day on May 31 when the World Health Organization will urge Member States to sign the Protocol to Eliminate the Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products.

• Thursday, May 29th 2014 - 02:45 UTC

  WHO calls on countries to raise taxes on tobacco to prevent addiction

  

  On World No Tobacco Day (31 May), WHO calls on countries to raise taxes on tobacco to encourage users to stop and prevent other people from becoming addicted to tobacco. Based on 2012 data, WHO estimates that increasing tobacco taxes by 50%, all countries would reduce the number of smokers by 49 million within the next three years and ultimately save 11 million lives.

• Friday, May 31st 2013 - 19:05 UTC

  Tobacco is the deadliest global pandemic, says former Uruguayan president Vazquez

  

  Calling tobacco use the deadliest global pandemic ever, Uruguay’s former President Tabaré Vázquez urged decision makers to step up efforts to curb smoking in Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Friday, May 31st 2013 - 01:28 UTC

  Call for urgent total ban on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship in the Americas

  

  On World No Tobacco Day, May 31, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) is calling on countries throughout the Americas to ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship. Such bans are one of the most effective ways to reduce consumption of tobacco, which kills some 1 million people every year in this hemisphere.