World No Tobacco Day will be observed this year on Thursday, May 31st. Hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO), the theme is "tobacco industry interference.”
Tobacco Industry Interference was selected as this year’s theme for The World Health Organization (WHO) World No Tobacco Day. World No Tobacco Day is meant to encourage a 24-hour period of abstinence from all forms of tobacco consumption across the globe. The day is further intended to draw global attention to the widespread prevalence of tobacco use and to negative health effects. This year’s campaign will focus on the need to expose and counter the tobacco industry’s brazen and increasingly aggressive attempts to undermine the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) because of the serious danger they pose to public health.
WHO states that: The tobacco industry has historically employed a multitude of tactics to shape and influence tobacco control policy. The tobacco industry has used its economic power, lobbying and marketing machinery, and manipulation of the media to discredit scientific research and influence governments in order to propagate the sale and distribution of its deadly product. Furthermore, the tobacco industry continues to inject large philanthropic contributions into social programs worldwide to create a positive public image under the guise of corporate social responsibility.
Tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, causing approximately 443,000 deaths each year.
For more information on World No Tobacco Day, visit http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/. To view CADCA’s tobacco resources, visit http://www.cadca.org/ctg. Know someone who wants to quit smoking and tobacco use altogether? Free help is available by calling the Tobacco Quit Line at 1-800-QUIT-NOW.
Tobacco Industry Interference was selected as this year’s theme for The World Health Organization (WHO) World No Tobacco Day. World No Tobacco Day is meant to encourage a 24-hour period of abstinence from all forms of tobacco consumption across the globe. The day is further intended to draw global attention to the widespread prevalence of tobacco use and to negative health effects. This year’s campaign will focus on the need to expose and counter the tobacco industry’s brazen and increasingly aggressive attempts to undermine the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) because of the serious danger they pose to public health.
WHO states that: The tobacco industry has historically employed a multitude of tactics to shape and influence tobacco control policy. The tobacco industry has used its economic power, lobbying and marketing machinery, and manipulation of the media to discredit scientific research and influence governments in order to propagate the sale and distribution of its deadly product. Furthermore, the tobacco industry continues to inject large philanthropic contributions into social programs worldwide to create a positive public image under the guise of corporate social responsibility.
Tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, causing approximately 443,000 deaths each year.
For more information on World No Tobacco Day, visit http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/. To view CADCA’s tobacco resources, visit http://www.cadca.org/ctg. Know someone who wants to quit smoking and tobacco use altogether? Free help is available by calling the Tobacco Quit Line at 1-800-QUIT-NOW.
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