- Each year on 31st May World No Tobacco Day is celebrated throughout the globe to inculcate global attention to the tobacco epidemic and its preventable death and disease.
- The 2020 theme for World No Tobacco Day is "Protecting youth from industry manipulation and preventing them from tobacco and nicotine use".
- This day was firstly observed in 1987 by the World Health Organization (WHO). However, the date was selected in 1988 by WHA42.19 resolution.
Published On : 30 May 2020
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