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World No Tobacco Day Unmasks the Harms of Tobacco

  • On May 31, 2025, World No Tobacco Day highlighted the harms caused by tobacco use worldwide, focusing on industry tactics.
  • The event arose amid growing concerns over tobacco's health impacts and the tobacco and vaping industry's aggressive marketing, especially targeting youth.
  • Experts detailed tobacco’s links to lung disease, cardiovascular harm, diabetes, and reproductive issues, while highlighting vaping’s rising popularity and addictive nicotine content.
  • Reports show that 16.8% of surveyed South African high school students vape and about 60% of teen vapers are estimated to be addicted, with nicotine delivered by flavored products.
  • The day underscored the urgent need for stricter regulations and public awareness to counter deceptive promotions and reduce tobacco-related harm globally.
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On May 31, World Tobacco-Free Day is celebrated, an initiative promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) to alert against the harm of tobacco use. However, in the Mexican context, the focus has turned to vaping devices, which, although conceived as harm reduction tools, have become the core of a complex crisis derived from prohibitive policies. Since the entry into force of these restrictions, illegal trade in vaping machines has grown exp…

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Mexico City, May 31. -The consumption of tobacco is related to eight million deaths a year worldwide and in Mexico with 63,000 deaths a year, said Hugo Aguilar Talamantes, holder of Medical Programs in the Coordination of Mental Health and Addictions of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS). On the World Day without Tobacco, which is commemorated today May 31, Aguilar Talamantes, explained that the IMSS has established the policy 100% Smo…

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EnviroNews Nigeria - broke the news in on Thursday, May 29, 2025.
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