Health: No Tobacco Day on May 31

ISLAMABAD: World No Tobacco Day will be observed throughout the world on May 31, to encourage tobacco users to abstain from consuming all forms of tobacco. It is ardently supported by governments, individuals, non-profit organisations, public health organisations, tobacco industry and even smokers, a news channel reported. The World Health Organisation (WHO) selects “The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control” as the theme of the next World No Tobacco Day (WNTD). World Tobacco Day was initiated in 1987, when the World Health Assembly (WHA) of the WHO passed a resolution which ultimately formed the World No Tobacco Day. The primary objective of WNTD was to enlighten people about the deadly components of tobacco and its repercussions.



Published in The Express Tribune, May 27^th, 2011.