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World No Tobacco Day - 2012

by Dr. Reeja Tharu on  May 30, 2012
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World No Tobacco Day - 2012

World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is observed globally around the world each year on May 31. It was first created by the member states of the WHO in 1987. On this day a 24-hour abstinence from tobacco and all its products is encouraged throughout the world. WNTD also hopes to draw attention to widespread tobacco use and to the health hazards that stem from it. In the past two decades, WNTD has been both welcomed and resisted world-wide by smokers, governments, public health organizations, tobacco growers, and the tobacco industry.
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