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Tobacco Day
About Anti Tobacco Day
"World No Tobacco day" was initiated in 1987 to grab global attention. In 1987, the World Health Assembly passed Resolution WHA40.38, calling for 7th April 1988 to be a "a world no-smoking day." In 1988, Resolution WHA42.19 was passed, calling for the celebration of World No Tobacco Day, every year on 31 May.

The objective is to inform people on dangers of using tobacco. The day also aims to reduce 5.4 million early deaths caused due to tobacco related health problems. On May 31st 2008 the WHO called for a complete ban on tobacco advertising. Series of initiatives were taken by World Health Organisation for preventing Tobacco hazards.

2009- Tobacco health warnings
2008- Tobacco free youth
2007- Smoke free inside
2006- Tobacco: Deadly in any form or disguise
2005- Health professionals against tobacco

Claim your right to health and healthy living and protect your younger generations from loosing their future in every puff of smoke. We all have to join our hands together to fight the Tobacco epidemic.
Every puff takes a breath away – QUIT SMOKING
Dear friends let’s take an oath today that if you are a smoker you would quit smoking else help your friends so that we build a healthy generation. Put your comments below.
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Chinmoy Kumar Sen
my personal view is that anti tobacco day success can be achieved if we convert this campaign into anti tobacco days and not day.....
HARISH
can we change the world in a day? let's everyone should act every second to stop smoking in any possible way, individually or in a group where we are. Finding the root cause of one who smokes, it is possible to transform the people who smokes(or any bad habit)by teaching its dangerous effects. Also through loving,friendship,concernmake them participate in social service,spiritual practices, worshipping God,advising to drink water or juice in betweeen the work in working places, and also awakening the governtment to make law to ban manufacture of tobacco products. But no one bothers, stands blind and walk their way! I'll do my possible way through writing or messaging. you?
meena k.h.
can we change the world in a day? let's everyone should act every second to stop smoking in any possible way, individually or in a group where we are. Finding the root cause of one who smokes, it is possible to transform the people who smokes(or any bad habit)by teaching its dangerous effects. Also through loving,friendship,concernmake them participate in social service,spiritual practices, worshipping God,advising to drink water or juice in betweeen the work in working places, and also awakening the governtment to make law to ban manufacture of tobacco products. But no one bothers, stands blind and walk their way! I'll do my possible way through writing or messaging. you?
meena k.h.
Quit Smoking or Quit Life - This should be the warning on the packs.
Sanjiv
Don't Smoke.... We all Know this is very harmful... plz this is my request... Because every person's body related to God.. It is are Temple... Don't smoke!
Ms.Amit Kamal
Certainly, every puff reduces the lives of people. But on the one hand the government allows selling of tobacco items and on the other promoting "anti-tobacco" campaigns. The government should outrightly stop the production of tobacco items. This will lead to certain complexities. But if we truly need to save lives of people around the world, we should rather campaign to dismantle the tobacco item manufacturing strong lobby around the world. At one side the government is earning a huge sum of revenue from sale of these tobacco products and on the other expending a huge sum on the health care measures. We need to be truly concern and should try to vanish this menace to save the world economy from deterioration, human health from immense suffering and ensure the coming generation live in peace and good health.
Mohammad Taiyab Khan
Certainly, every puff reduces the lives of people. But on the one hand the government allows selling of tobacco items and on the other promoting "anti-tobacco" campaigns. The government should outrightly stop the production of tobacco items. This will lead to certain complexities. But if we truly need to save lives of people around the world, we should rather campaign to dismantle the tobacco item manufacturing strong lobby around the world. At one side the government is earning a huge sum of revenue from sale of these tobacco products and on the other expending a huge sum on the health care measures. We need to be truly concern and should try to vanish this menace to save the world economy from deterioration, human health from immense suffering and ensure the coming generation live in peace and good health.
Mohammad Taiyab Khan
After havinng this bad habit for a no. of years, finding difficult to quit.Any possible ways to quit?
Ravi
Don't smoke. We know it's disadvantages so why smoking?
somanath
A great being has said that the essance of all sins is ignorance so the best way of awarness is to have training classes in all the schools and educational institutions and then get a commitment from every one that the have understood the matter and never try to use it or quit it.
shahram mansoori
The menace of drug and tobacco consumption explores higher skies. The lobby behind the tobacco/ drug consumption comprises of mafia gangs who are supported by the so called do gooders of politics. The motive behind these activities is easy money and conquest of the civil society. Excess consumption of tobacco products and drugs make the person aggressive and Imbecile. This situation is exploited by the mafia gangs . The victims are made addicted to drugs and tobacco . At a point they may not be able to raise money for buying the intoxicant tobacco products. The goonda elements take advantage of the situation and provide the victims with the drugs free of cost and asks them to escort the drug/ spirit consignments to various parts of the country. The victims are often made to fight for the goondas. The tobacco products damage our brain . This make the person aggressive and ultimately become the permanent warriors of the black forces. The mafias entrust them the responsibility of organizing political riots etc. The tactic tried by Britain to defeat China was drug trafficking. Ship loads of opium Made the young generation inactive and addicted. Our nation should not have similar fate. Our families should not have boys addicted to drugs or tobacco. Tobacco is a slow poison that brings in chronic diseases including Cancer. So, let us detract the helpless tobacco victims from ruin. K.Prasad
K.prasad
Its easier for me to buy cigarettes in this country(anywhere, anyplace, any time)than bananas, flour, lentils or salt. To allow the open sale of tobacco and then spend money creating awareness about its deadly effects is akin to a mother first cooking/feeding health destroying food to her child and then telling him /her not to ask for more because its gong to kill him/her. this is murderous sadism. just ban the production of tobacco /sale of tobacco . let people grow fruits and grains instead. A debilitated society suffering from myriad diseases related directly to tobacco is being deliberately created. I am a one woman army scolding, nagging, pestering and teaching anybody and everybody about the harm they are doing to them selves and others. I suggest alternate stuff like fruits. I do it while buying groceries, filling petrol,in the fish market , in my workplace and till recently at home. I tell people what they can do with the money they would save, the health they can have and the goodies they can buy and how clean and healthy they would look. I am like John the Baptist , a lone voice . I tell kids to tell their dad's not to smoke. I use humour, sarcasm, real concern, and anger to quell the smoker/tobacco chewer. My smoke addicted family gave up cigarettes, (somebody 20 years ago and somebody just a month ago). But I never gave up on them.ITs important that we join hands to fight the sale of tobacco. I don't buy this clever stuff of targetting the end user after the smoke has lodged itself in the brain and the lungs! Catch thise coffin makers. The "Governments" of India ! Do it now. before we brag about the young nation just look at their physical and mental health.
roopali sircar
Being Chairman of All Jammu Kashmir Students Front AJKSF a students and youth organisation we have initiated a campaign and through adds in newspapers hihglighted the need of quiting tobacco for a better society
waseem
Tobacco consumption is rampant among all sections of society,only the form in which it is consumed is different.The uneducated may not be aware of the ill effects,but even after knowing how tobacco consumption harms our system,acting as a slow poison,we the educated people get lured by it’s addictive power.First of all we should stop ‘trying it out’,the term used by many who believe that sensibility lies in having a first hand experience of everything.This ‘trying out’ phenomena when applied in case of tobacco or alcohol,often encouraged by peer group members often leads to ultimate addiction.One should have enough ‘self control’to be not swayed by the words of others.If you really want to ‘try out’something ,then try out some social work! It is also very sad that women consider smoking and drinking makes them as smart as men.It is like jumping in the same well of death.So say NO to TOBACCO and BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. Oishimaya Sen
oishimaya sen
Government should ban tobacco and all related roducts while educating the people on the ill effects
Sebastian
The production and import of tobacco products should be banned entirely to save the lives of the million people. Only making the law is not enough if its implementation is not done.
D N Singh
Ya I agree with this Day. Smoking are v,v,very dangerios for our Helth, Environment and Nature. I m v,v,very Hate for Smokeing and Smoker to. My oponion is distroy a TOBACCO Factories in all our the world.
Mohammad Abdur Rahman Siddiqi
smoking is killing every body in the family because of one person and also destroy the environment
rajan srivastava
it is really a bad habit bcoz it has adverse affect on person who smoke as well as on others who d'nt.we must aware people abt its hazardious effects.
prayesha
It has been a long standing problem and debate. The practice of using tobacco has history rooted centuries back. It is a traditional practice in many parts of the world in different social segments of people. The complete eradication of uses of tobacco seems impossible. The only way left to erradicate it as large is a complete ban on tobacco and its other form of uses. It is noteworthy here that the revenues gained from its market is thousands of crores and no government would like to debit that from its budget. The only way left is to promote and engage volunteer groups and organizations to make people aware of and educate about its threatening facet. The governments have to be selective in making their policies in order to promptly manage their budgets keeping in view that whether or not they are weakening their people and economy in the long course of time.
Dr. Satya Pal Singh
Population Services International (PSI), a non governmental organization, in partnership with Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth (HRIDAY), is conducting an activity on 31st May 2009 (Sunday) in the cities of Gurgaon, Mumbai and Bangalore. The purpose of the activity is to provide the truth about tobacco use and to educate the general public about health warnings on tobacco packs. In keeping with the theme of 'Tobacco Health Warnings' for this year's WNTD, the activity will be in the form of a 20 minute street play will be conducted by trained artists followed by an interaction with volunteers who will interact with the audience on a one to one and one to group basis and solicit feedback from them as to their call to action. The same activity will be conducted several times in order to engage with the target audience visiting the shopping mall during the day. In Gurgaon, the activity will be flagged off at 12.00 noon at Ambience Mall, Near Reliance Trendz, Ground Floor, Gurgaon and will continue during the day till 8.00 pm. All are welcome.
Surbhi Bhalla
I work with HRIDAY-SHAN, a NGO working for advocacy and enforcement of anti-tobacco laws. On the eve of World No Tobacco Day,a call to the general public out there is to demand your right to know the truth-the whole truth-about the dangers of tobacco use and exposure to second-hand smoke and also to let everyone know that you support picture warnings.Let us take ownership of the cause.
Surbhi Bhalla
Has cigarette done so much to you, to remain such a close friend,for whom you are ready to give off your life??!! “I smoke.” “I drink.” These are the fantasy statements amongst today’s youth. When I saw this contest I just typed “alcohol” in a search engine and was amazed to see 179,000,000 results and 442,000 results for its ill effects. This simply signifies how dangerous and deadly the habit of drinking and smoking are. World has faced too many people who fought and are fighting for ‘Women rights, men women equality’ but where has it ended, Men and women smoking the same cigarette or women saying “cheers” and having her drink in the parties? TODAY drinking takes place in disguise of parties and Smoking has a self explanatory reason named “TENSION”. 95% of today’s students know the cost of alcoholic beverages and cigarettes but how many of them know the ill effects they cause? Not even 15%.
V.GANGA BHARANI
Eventhough I do not smoke still I am affected by the smoke emitted by others.Hence, I am equally responsible to propagate the idea of total eradication of smoke on the eve of World No Tobacco Day that falls on May 31 every year.Really a good idea to campaign to eradicate smoking from the world.
Ramalingam
Smoking is a slow posioning catalyst.Smoking should be strictly banned both in public and private places. A strong wave is to be built to create awarness about the danger of smoking. We all should come forward to built a healthy India of healthy person
Dr Gursharan Singh Kainth
First of all I am totally against of Smoking , and my advice to all who smokes that God has given us this life of Human a prestigious Sole of “Human” Life and this if is wasted through Smoking and killing yourself is the major crime , because in behalf of you your family is their and they will be the suffer, “ TOBACCO IS VERY DANGEROUS TO HEALTH “ it is a slow poison never smoke , Cancer is the cause of this , therefore “ PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE ” this word must be always in mind by Heart , Tobacco & Alcohole must be completely Ban in India , If India needs good Healthy People and Nature , Don`t Smoke and Don`t let other`s to Smoke please advice them to , because if a person smoke his effects goes to other person who is not smoker , effect will be Via Air Only , so at Last “ PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE ”...
Anand Krishnan ( Journalist )
The objective is to inform people on dangers of using tobacco. The day also aims to reduce 5.4 million early deaths caused due to tobacco related health problems. On May 31st 2008 the WHO called for a complete ban on tobacco advertising. Series of initiatives were taken by World Health Organisation for preventing Tobacco hazards
rajiv ranjan
Great Idea.
rajiv ranjan