May 3 1 Day World No Tobacco Day

The origin of World No Tobacco Day

1987165438+10 In October, the World Health Organization (WHO) suggested at the 6th International Conference on Smoking and Health held in Tokyo, Japan that April 7th 1988, the 40th anniversary of the founding of WHO, be designated as "World No Tobacco Day", and put forward "You! 1989, the World Health Organization changed this day to May 3 1 day every year.

It seems to be well known that smoking is harmful to health. But in the face of the harm of tobacco to human body, those old smokers are always poised and indifferent. 1In April 1995, Lianhe Zaobao in Singapore published an article listing the harmful components contained in a cigarette as follows:

Acetone-A Paint Stripper

Ammonia-used in the production of floor cleaners

Arsenic-a Dramatic Drug

Carbon monoxide-a harmful gas

DDT pesticide, an organochlorine pesticide.

Hydrogen cyanide-a toxin in gas

Naphthalene, a deadly component in camphor balls

Tar, an odorous substance, is only used for paving roads.

Nicotine insecticide

It is said that nicotine is the most harmful. Nicotine in one cigarette can poison a mouse, and nicotine in 20 cigarettes can poison a cow. If an adult smokes 20 to 25 cigarettes a day, he will inhale 50 to 70 milligrams of nicotine. These nicotine could have killed people, but smokers were spared only because they were inhaled intermittently and the human body had certain detoxification ability.

Tobacco contains many carcinogens and ciliated toxins, which can reduce the body's ability to expel foreign bodies. These poisons attach to the tiny particles of cigarette smoke, reach the alveoli and deposit there, which reinforce each other. As a result, the carcinogenic effect is greatly enhanced. People who smoke more than 10 cigarettes a day have a lung cancer mortality rate 2.5 times that of non-smokers. 90% of lung cancer patients and13 of various diseases are caused by smoking. In addition, smoking can also cause laryngeal cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer, bladder cancer and so on. Smoking will aggravate cardiovascular diseases, accelerate atherosclerosis and thrombosis, lead to arrhythmia and even sudden death. Some researchers have found that the crush mortality of smokers due to coronary heart disease is more than four times higher than that of non-smokers. Smoking can damage the nervous system, make people's memory decline and age prematurely. Smoking can damage the respiratory system. Smokers often cough and expectorate all the year round, and are prone to respiratory diseases such as bronchitis, emphysema and bronchiectasis. Smokers are prone to gastric ulcer, because nicotine in smoke will destroy the acid-base balance of digestive tract. 1995 On May 3 1, the eighth World No Tobacco Day came, and the World Health Organization issued a statement in Geneva. According to the statement, there are currently 1 1 billion smokers in the world, consuming 6 trillion cigarettes every year. At present, 3 million people worldwide die of tobacco poisoning every year, that is, one person dies of diseases caused by smoking every 10 second. According to experts' analysis, the smoke produced during smoking can be divided into mainstream smoke (that is, the smoke inhaled by smokers) and secondary smoke (that is, the smoke emitted by tobacco after burning, that is, the smoke that directly harms passive smokers). Passive smokers have to accept the mainstream smoke of direct smokers, as well as mixed smoke and sidestream smoke (which is 2-5 times more toxic than mainstream smoke). According to the report of the World Health Organization 1975, even non-smokers can detect nicotine in blood and urine, which is the result of passive smoking. The biggest harm of passive smoking to human body is ischemic heart disease caused by the effect of nicotine on the heart. According to the statistics of American doctors from 65438 to 0974, the number of people with angina pectoris caused by passive smoking is not less than that caused by direct smokers. Passive smoking by non-smokers is quite serious. Medical survey shows that the incidence of lung cancer of the wife of an adult male who smokes 20 cigarettes a day (she doesn't smoke herself) is more than twice as high as that of the wife of a non-smoking male (she doesn't smoke herself). Parents smoke more than 10 cigarettes a day, and the average height of children in their families is 0.65cm shorter than that of children in non-smoking families. However, parents smoke less than 10 cigarettes a day, which is 0.45 cm shorter than children in non-smoking families on average.

The World Health Organization held the first global conference on "Anti-smoking Project" in the Netherlands in 1950s, which was called "World Congress on Smoking and Health". It is the first time in the world to take a clear-cut banner against smoking, and it is fully promoted. The congress was held every four years, and later it was changed to every two to three years. The name of the conference was also changed to "World Conference on Tobacco and Health". 1June 1994 to1October 10, the 9th World Congress on Tobacco and Health was held in Paris, France. 1300 delegates from 102 countries attended the meeting, and the meeting decided to move the 10 meeting from developed countries to developing countries. The bidding countries are Finland, Portugal, Turkey and China. After voting, China won the bid. 1997 World Anti-Smoking Conference was held in Beijing, China from August 24th to 28th.

The world anti-smoking movement is rising year by year, and it has set off a wave of legal attacks in many aspects, which directly threatens the survival of tobacco companies. More and more plaintiffs are suing tobacco companies, demanding compensation for the losses caused by smoking. Nowadays, the wave of "be healthy, don't smoke" is getting higher and higher. It has become an outdated trend to just stay on warnings such as "No Smoking". The number of countries that have issued smoking bans has increased rapidly. 1986 only 46 countries have implemented smoking cessation laws. By 1993, this number has exceeded 100. Around the world, especially in developing countries, smokers still "thrive", which worries the world. The harm of tobacco, such as endangering health, polluting the environment and causing fires, has made people of insight, social groups, international organizations and governments all participate in and organize the "no smoking" movement. "World No Tobacco Day" has a definite theme every year, which embodies the unity of programmatic, continuous, targeted and practical operation, and gradually deepens.

The theme of previous World No Tobacco Day:

1988: Tobacco or health? Please select.

1989: women and tobacco

1990: Teenagers should not smoke.

199 1 year: Smoking is prohibited in public places and public transport.

1992: Smoking is prohibited in the workplace.

1993: Health departments and health workers oppose smoking.

1994: mass media promote smoking ban.

1995 tobacco and economy

1996: smokeless cultural and sports activities

1997: The United Nations and related agencies oppose smoking.

1998: growing up in a smoke-free environment

1999: Quit smoking. The slogan is "Quit smoking"

The theme of 2000 is: Don't use cultural and sports activities to promote tobacco. The slogan is: "Smoking is harmful, don't be tempted."

200 1: Purify the air and refuse to smoke secondhand smoke.

2002: Smoke-free Sports Cleaning Competition

2003: smokeless movies, smokeless fashion.

2004: smoking control and poverty reduction.

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