{"id":1653,"date":"2019-06-18T13:04:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T13:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2019-07-22T18:46:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T18:46:08","slug":"world-no-tobacco-day-wntd-is-observed-on-31-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/world-no-tobacco-day-wntd-is-observed-on-31-may\/","title":{"rendered":"World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is observed on 31 May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

World No Tobacco Day\n(WNTD)<\/strong> is observed around the world every year\non 31 May<\/strong>.\nEvery year the World\nHealth Organization (WHO)<\/strong>and global partners celebrate World No\nTobacco Day (WNTD).

Aim:<\/strong>
\nThe annual campaign is an opportunity to raise awareness on the\nharmful <\/strong>and deadly effects of tobacco use and second-hand\nsmoke exposure, and to discourage the use of tobacco in any form. It is\nintended to encourage a 24-hour period of abstinence from all forms of tobacco\nconsumption around the globe. It draws attention to the widespread prevalence of tobacco use and to\nnegative health effects. <\/strong>
\nWNTD is one\nof eight official global public health<\/strong> campaigns marked by\nthe WHO, along with World Health Day, World Blood Donor Day, World Immunization\nWeek, World Tuberculosis Day, World Malaria Day, World Hepatitis Day, and World\nAIDS Day.

2019\nTheme:<\/strong>
\nIn 2019, WNTD focused on its theme on ‘Tobacco and lung health’.<\/strong> The\nnegative impact that tobacco has on people\u2019s lung health, from cancer to chronic respiratory disease.<\/strong>
\nThe tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest\npublic health threats the world has ever faced, killing more than 8 million\npeople a year. More than 7\nmillion of those deaths<\/strong> are the result of direct tobacco\nuse while around 1.2 million are the result of non-smokers being exposed to\nsecond-hand smoke.

Tobacco:<\/strong>
\nTobacco is a product prepared from the leaves of\nthe tobacco plant by curing them. More than 70 species<\/strong> of\ntobacco are known.
\nDried tobacco leaves are mainly used for smoking\nin cigarettes,\ncigars, pipe tobacco, and flavored shisha tobacco<\/strong>. They can\nalso be consumed as snuff, chewing tobacco, dipping tobacco and snus.
\nTobacco use is a risk factor for many diseases;\nespecially those affecting the heart, liver, and lungs, as well as many\ncancers. In 2008, the World Health Organization named tobacco as the world’s single greatest preventable\ncause of death<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is observed around the world every year on 31 May. Every year the World Health Organization (WHO)and global partners celebrate World No Tobacco Day (WNTD). Aim: The annual campaign is an opportunity to raise awareness on the harmful and deadly effects of tobacco use and second-hand smoke exposure, and to discourage the use of tobacco […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,8],"tags":[99,233],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","category-current-affairs","tag-days-events-current-affairs","tag-world-no-tobacco-day-wntd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175676,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/175676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}