World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is observed around the world every year on May 31 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, which currently lead to 5.4 million deaths worldwide annually
The member states of the World Health Organization(WHO) created World No Tobacco Day in 1987.
World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is one of 8 official Global Pblic Health Campaigns marked by the World Health Organization(WHO), along with -
- World Health Day -April 07
- World Blood Donor Day -June 14
- World Immunization Week -last week of April
- World Tuberculosis Day -March 24
- World Malaria Day -April 25
- World Hepatitis Day -July 28 and
- World AIDS Day -December 01
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