Tobacco is a wild plant growing in South America. At first, Indians chewed tobacco leaves or made them into cigarettes to smoke. Tobacco has prevailed in the world for more than 200 years, and it was not until the 20th century that human beings began to realize the harm of tobacco to human beings.

From 65438 to 0977, the American Cancer Society first put forward a publicity and education method to control smoking-No Tobacco Day.

On this day, the United States launched a nationwide "smoking is harmful to health" publicity campaign to discourage smokers from smoking that day, and shops stopped selling tobacco products for one day. The United States has designated the Thursday of the third week of June 165438+ 10 as its own No Tobacco Day.

Since then, Britain, Malaysia, Hong Kong and other countries and regions have also formulated no-tobacco days.

Smoking is an important cause of non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, cancer and emphysema, and smokers are more likely to suffer from infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and pneumonia.

1987, 165438+ 10. In October, the World Health Organization suggested that April 7th every year be designated as "World No Tobacco Day", and it will be implemented from April 38 to June 0988. From 1989, "World No Tobacco Day" is changed to May 3 1 every year.

The activities of No Tobacco Day are aimed at reminding the world that smoking is harmful to health, calling on smokers all over the world to quit smoking voluntarily, and calling on all tobacco producers, sellers and the whole international community to act together and join the anti-smoking campaign to create a smoke-free environment for mankind.

According to WHO data, smoking causes nearly 6 million deaths every year. If no action is taken, this number will increase to 8 million by 2030, and 80% of the deaths will occur in low-income and middle-income countries.

Statistics released by China CDC show that there are more than 300 million smokers in China, accounting for nearly one third of the total number of smokers in the world, and one person dies of tobacco-related diseases every 30 seconds. If the use of tobacco does not decline, the number of tobacco-related deaths in China will rise to 3 million per year by 2050.

Beware of the harm of tobacco

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"Smoking may be the only serious health hazard in the world, but it is still allowed by law." Director Wang Yuandong said. The harm of smoking has attracted worldwide attention, and China joined the International Tobacco Control Organization in 2006.

In the past, smoking was only considered as the main influencing factor of lung cancer. However, with the progress of medicine and the implementation of multidisciplinary treatment programs, smoking has been proved to be related to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, rectal cancer, pancreatic cancer and other major diseases.

Smoking has always been regarded as an unhealthy lifestyle. Long-term smoking will not only affect your health, but also make others suffer from "second-hand smoke", and even the exhaled gas will pollute the air. Scientists have never stopped studying smoking.

Everyone knows that smoking does great harm to the lungs, but most people still don't understand the influence of smoking on the brain. Recent research shows that long-term smoking will also increase the risk of brain atrophy.

Smoking is the biggest cause of lung cancer, and mental stress is also a potential factor.

Among cancers, the incidence and mortality of lung cancer ranks first among malignant tumors in China. With the coming of the 20 15 World Anti-Cancer Day, in order to let more people know about lung cancer, the family doctor interviewed Kang, director of the oncology department of the Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine of Southern Medical University, online and asked him to answer relevant questions for us.

He emphasized that smoking is the most important known factor of lung cancer. Excessive stress in daily life will lead to decreased immunity and increased cancer risk. We should take active defensive measures to prevent cancer.

The harm of smoking to health is clear, and citizens who want to quit smoking can't listen to the statement that smoking is harmless; Repeated smoking and quitting smoking are harmful to your health. For smokers, it is very important to quit smoking completely and find more spiritual sustenance in life after quitting smoking.