Een asbak met verse bloemen is het symbool voor de werelddag zonder tabakPoster van de Werelddag zonder tabak van de WHO in 2018
Werelddag zonder tabak (internationaal: World No Tobacco Day) is wereldwijd initiatief van de lidstaten van de World Health Organization (WHO). De werelddag is opgericht in 1987 en vindt jaarlijks plaats op 31 mei. Het is bedoeld om wereldwijd de aandacht te vestigen op de wijdverbreide prevalentie van roken en de negatieve effecten daarvan op de gezondheid, die op dit moment leiden tot 5,4 miljoen doden wereldwijd per jaar.
Thema's
Jaarlijks wordt een thema gekozen:
2025 Unmasking the appeal: Exposing industry tactics on tobacco and nicotine products
2024 Protecting children from tobacco industry interference
2023 We need food, not tobacco
2022 Tobacco: Threat to our environment
2021 Commit to quit
2020 Tobacco and related industry tactics to attract younger generations[1]
2019 Tobacco and lung health
2018 Tobacco breaks hearts
2017 Tobacco – a threat to development
2016 Get ready for plain packaging
2015 Stop illicit trade of tobacco products
2014 Raise taxes on tobacco
2013 Ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship
2012 Tobacco industry interference
2011 The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
2010 Gender and tobacco with an emphasis on marketing to women
2009 Tobacco health warnings
2008 Tobacco-free youth
2007 Smoke free inside
2006 Tobacco: deadly in any form or disguise
2005 Health professionals against tobacco
2004 Tobacco and poverty, a vicious circle
2003 Tobacco free film, tobacco free fashion
2002 Tobacco free sports
2001 Second-hand smoke kills
2000 Tobacco kills, don't be duped
1999 Leave the pack behind
1998 Growing up without tobacco
1997 United for a tobacco free world
1996 Sport and art without tobacco: play it tobacco free
1995 Tobacco costs more than you think
1994 Media and tobacco: get the message across
1993 Health services: our windows to a tobacco free world
1992 Tobacco free workplaces: safer and healthier
1991 Public places and transport: better be tobacco free
1990 Childhood and youth without tobacco: growing up without tobacco
1989 Women and tobacco: the female smoker: at added risk
