World No Tobacco Day31st May’14

By Mahir Abdurahman IX B-10

IISJ

About World No Tobacco Day

World no tobacco day (WNTD) is observed every year on 31st of May. It was created by the member states of “World

Health Organization” (WHO) in 1987. It encourages the world for a 24 hour’s abstinence from all forms of tobaccos

including cigarettes. Almost 5.4 million people die worldwide in each year due to the use of tobaccos. It also encourages people to retire from smoking. So, friends let’s

consider every day as “World No Tobacco Day”!

Symbol of World no tobacco day

TobaccoTobacco is a plant within the genus Nicotina of

the Solanaceae (nightshade) family. While there are more than 70 species of tobacco, the chief commercial crop is N.tabucum . The more

potent species N. rustica is also widely used around the world.

Tobacco leaves

Types Of Tobacco There are many different types of tobacco:-

Aromatic Fire-cured, Brightleaf tobacco, Burley, CavendishCorojo, Criollo, Oriental Tobacco, Perique, Shade tobacco,Thuoc lao, Type 22, White Burley, Wild Tobacco and Y1 are

some of them.At present the most commonly used tobaccos are Burley,

Cavendish, Corojo and Perique.

Bright leaf tobacco

Health EffectsTobacco usually leads to death. It destroys our

cavities, organs and body tissues. It causes many types of Cancer, Pulmonary diseases, cardiovascular

disease, renal damage, influenza, oral cancer, psychological problems, and many other harms. On

the cigar packet itself it’s written “smoking kills”.

Therefore, Quit It!!! By using tobaccos, we ourselves are destroying our own body. So, stop using tobaccos and lead a better life! Not only on this day, the whole year, forever.., stop using of such unnecessary and useless things.

Using of tobaccos not only harm us, but everyone in our surroundings too….

CONCLUSIONAccording to the latest census, out of 7 billion population,

10% i.e. 700 million people are using tobaccos. Even children of 12 years old have started using tobaccos. In a year, more than 2 billion Indian rupees are being wasted on cigarettes. Amazing, Huh? Yeah, but it’s true. Actually we can say that

this much money is being wasted on tobaccos from which we does not gain anything but harms us.

So, be smart and “SAY NO TO TOBACCOS”

THANK YOU