This World No Tobacco Day, know tobacco bans and other rules in India

This World No Tobacco Day, know tobacco bans and other rules in India

orld No Tobacco Day is observed every year on May 31. Intended to encourage a 24-hour period of abstinence from all forms of tobacco consumption around the globe, the day was started by World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1987.
One of the major aims of World No Tobacco Day is to draw public attention to negative health effects of tobacco consumption.
Tobacco consumption causes around 7 million deaths each year worldwide. This includes around 600,000 deaths resulting from non-smokers being exposed to second-hand or passive smoke.
World No Tobacco Day 2018

HOW CIGARETTES HARM THE ENVIRONMENT

The first-ever WHO report, 'Tobacco and its Environmental Impact: An Overview', shows the impact of this product on nature:
  • Tobacco waste contains over 7000 toxic chemicals that poison the environment, including human carcinogens
  • Tobacco smoke emissions contribute thousands of tons of human carcinogens, toxins, and greenhouse gases to the environment. And tobacco waste is the largest type of litter by count globally
  • Up to 10 billion of the 15 billion cigarettes sold daily are disposed of in the environment
  • Cigarette butts account for 30-40 per cent of all items collected in coastal and urban clean-ups

SOME FACTS ON THE TOBACCO BAN IN INDIA:

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