World No Tobacco Day 2009
A Little History About World No Tobacco Day
The World Health Organization (WHO) created World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) in 1987 as a way to bring worldwide attention to the tobacco epidemic we’re up against on the planet today. The first World No Tobacco Day was celebrated on April 7, 1987. Since then, it has been observed on May 31st of every year.
Graphic Tobacco Health Warnings Do Work:
Findings of studies conducted in Brazil, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand reviewing the effects graphic images on tobacco packaging have on smokers are encouraging. 
- All countries saw an increase in the attention smokers gave to the health risks associated with tobacco use.
- All countries reported that large numbers of smokers said the pictorial health warnings on cigarette packs made them want to quit smoking.
- Malaysia reported that upwards of 25% of smokers polled smoked less at home because of the warnings
- Singapore reported that one in six smokers said they stopped smoking in front of children because of the warnings.
Studentsfrom Huaibei Health School gesticulate around a 5-meter-long gigantic cigarette, a hand-made model for a smoking-deserting publicity on the World No Tobacco Day which falls on May 31, on their campus in Huaibei, east China’s Anhui Province, May 30, 2009. (Xinhua/Li Bo) www.ChinaView.cn
