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World No-Tobacco Day

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World No Tobacco Day is celebrated globally every year on May 31st. The event, sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO), is an opportunity to educate the public on the negative health outcomes associated with tobacco use and the deceitful marketing practices of tobacco companies, and is also a means of protecting future generations from the harmful effects of tobacco.

The theme for this year's World No Tobacco Day is "gender and tobacco with an emphasis on marketing to women."

The tobacco industry targets women to replace the up to half of current users of tobacco who will die eventually of a tobacco-related disease. The World Health Organization urges governments, civil society and the general public to protect women and girls from tobacco marketing and smoke.

China's Endeavor

China began participating in the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in 2006, promising full implementation by 2011.

Half of China's public health institutions will be non-smoking spaces in 2010.

Smoking in indoor public spaces including public working place, public transportation vehicles and some other special outdoor working spaces will all be banned from January 2011.

• Women now main target of tobacco firms

• Beijing health report highlights risk of smoking

• China to ban smoking in public spaces in 2011

• Officials expected to take the lead on smoking ban

• Smoking at indoor workplaces to be banned

• Smoking, heavy drinking, inactivity, poor diet cut 12 years of life

• Smoking indoors banned at World Expo site

• Shanghai fires up anti-smoking law

• Wider ban on smoking in Shanghai public venues

• 13 China colleges to offer anti-smoking courses

• Volunteers to help stub out smoking in public

• Political advisor calls for smoke-free 'two sessions'