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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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CNHI NewsWorld ‘no tobacco day’ unmasks harms of tobacco
In recognition of World No Tobacco Day, Tobacco Stops With Me, a program of the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET), reminds Oklahomans of the serious health risks caused by tobacco use. The event will be observed on Saturday, May 31.
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…
Big Tobacco’s profit addiction needs a quit plan – The Mail & Guardian
Every year on 31 May, the World Health Organisation hosts World No Tobacco Day. The event shines a spotlight on the harmful effects of tobacco use and rallies global efforts to curb it. This year’s theme calls out the marketing tactics Big Tobacco uses to hook new users — especially young people. Because tobacco kills up to half of all lifetime users, tobacco companies must relentlessly seek new customers to sustain their profits. For decades, …
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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