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World
No Tobacco Day 2011
Every Year, World Health Organization celebrates World No
Tobacco Day on 31 May to draw global attention to the devastating health effect
of tobacco use and the importance of the tobacco control programme focusing
on an important aspect of the programme. This year WHO has selected "The WHO Framework Convention on
Tobacco Control" as the theme of the Day.
The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC)
is the world's foremost tobacco control instrument – the first treaty
developed and adopted pursuant to the authority of the WHO – provides an
outline for tobacco control and an international platform for implementation
and monitoring. It is one of the most rapidly and widely embraced treaties in
the history of the United Nations, with 172 Parties so far since its adoption
in 2005.
World No Tobacco Day 2011 will highlight the treaty's
overall importance, Parties' obligations under the treaty and the essential
role of the Conference of the Parties and WHO in supporting countries'
efforts to meet those obligations.
On World No Tobacco Day 2011, and throughout the following
year, WHO will urge countries to put the Treaty at the heart of their tobacco
control efforts. WHO-SEARO has planned several activities on this occasion.
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