In June 1987, June 165438+ 10, the United Nations World Health Organization suggested that April 7th of each year be designated as "World No Tobacco Day", which was implemented in June 1988.
However, since April 7th is the anniversary of the establishment of the World Health Organization, on this day every year, the World Health Organization will put forward a theme health care requirement. In order not to interfere with the presentation of its health theme, the World Health Organization decided from 1989 to designate May 3 1 as World No Tobacco Day, and China also designated this day as China No Tobacco Day.
The significance and purpose of banning smoking;
China is a big tobacco country with a large number of smokers. Everyone knows that smoking is very harmful to health. Smoking not only affects health, but also has a negative impact on family and society.
Smoking control can effectively reduce the number of smokers. Through tobacco control and smoking cessation propaganda, the number of smokers will increase, thus reducing the income of smokers themselves. The occurrence of various tobacco-related diseases will promote social harmony, and smoking will also affect social harmony. Smoking in public places will endanger the health of others, and in serious cases, it will cause contradictions with people around. Tobacco control can reduce social harm.