Kohima, May 25 (MExN): A one day seminar is being organized to discuss the concepts and scope of WHO, FCTC & smoke free rules coinciding with the World No Tobacco Day on May 31 from 9:00 AM onward here in the Directorate of Heath & Family Welfare Conference Hall, New Capital Complex.
In this regard, the concerned NGOs like municipalities, NMA, NSF, ENSF, ASU, ANSTA, ENSF, NBCC, ABCC, NCRC, Catholic Association of Nagaland, pastors/women leaders, DDK, AIR, Media and CMO, Kohima and Dimapur have been requested to depute their representatives to this one day seminar.
Minister for health and family welfare Kuzholüzo (Azo) Nienu will grace the seminar as the chief guest. The function will be chaired by Menukhol John, commissioner & secretary health and family welfare while keynote address will be delivered by Dr. N. Savino, additional director (Dental) & SNO, (NTCP) Directorate of Health & Family Welfare. Vote of thanks will be proposed by Dr. R. Imtimeren Jamir, principal director, health & family welfare.
In this regard, the concerned NGOs like municipalities, NMA, NSF, ENSF, ASU, ANSTA, ENSF, NBCC, ABCC, NCRC, Catholic Association of Nagaland, pastors/women leaders, DDK, AIR, Media and CMO, Kohima and Dimapur have been requested to depute their representatives to this one day seminar.
Minister for health and family welfare Kuzholüzo (Azo) Nienu will grace the seminar as the chief guest. The function will be chaired by Menukhol John, commissioner & secretary health and family welfare while keynote address will be delivered by Dr. N. Savino, additional director (Dental) & SNO, (NTCP) Directorate of Health & Family Welfare. Vote of thanks will be proposed by Dr. R. Imtimeren Jamir, principal director, health & family welfare.
World No Tobacco Day 2011
On 31st May each year WHO celebrates World No Tobacco Day, highlighting the health risks associated with tobacco use and advocating for effective policies to reduce consumption. Tobacco use is the second cause of death globally (after hypertension) and is currently responsible for killing one in 10 adults worldwide.
The World Health Assembly created World No Tobacco Day in 1987 to draw global attention to the tobacco epidemic and its lethal effects. It provides an opportunity to highlight specific tobacco control messages and to promote adherence to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Tobacco use is the number one preventable epidemic that the health community faces.
The WHO selects “The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control” as the theme of the next World No Tobacco Day, which will take place on Tuesday, 31 May 2011.
The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is the world’s foremost tobacco control instrument. The first treaty ever negotiated under the auspices of WHO, it represents a signal achievement in the advancement of public health. In force only since 2005, it is already one of the most rapidly and widely embraced treaties in the history of the United Nations, with more than 170 Parties. An evidence-based treaty, it reaffirms the right of all people to the highest standard of health and provides new legal dimensions for cooperation in tobacco control.
The world needs the WHO FCTC as much as, if not more than, it did in 1996 when the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution calling for an international framework convention on tobacco control. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death. This year, more than 5 million people will die from a tobacco-related heart attack, stroke, cancer, lung ailment or other disease. That does not include the more than 600,000 people – more than a quarter of them children – who will die from exposure to second-hand smoke. The annual death toll from the global epidemic of tobacco use could rise to 8 million by 2030. Having killed 100 million people during the 20th century, tobacco use could kill 1 billion during the 21st century.
(Source: who.int)
The World Health Assembly created World No Tobacco Day in 1987 to draw global attention to the tobacco epidemic and its lethal effects. It provides an opportunity to highlight specific tobacco control messages and to promote adherence to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Tobacco use is the number one preventable epidemic that the health community faces.
The WHO selects “The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control” as the theme of the next World No Tobacco Day, which will take place on Tuesday, 31 May 2011.
The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is the world’s foremost tobacco control instrument. The first treaty ever negotiated under the auspices of WHO, it represents a signal achievement in the advancement of public health. In force only since 2005, it is already one of the most rapidly and widely embraced treaties in the history of the United Nations, with more than 170 Parties. An evidence-based treaty, it reaffirms the right of all people to the highest standard of health and provides new legal dimensions for cooperation in tobacco control.
The world needs the WHO FCTC as much as, if not more than, it did in 1996 when the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution calling for an international framework convention on tobacco control. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death. This year, more than 5 million people will die from a tobacco-related heart attack, stroke, cancer, lung ailment or other disease. That does not include the more than 600,000 people – more than a quarter of them children – who will die from exposure to second-hand smoke. The annual death toll from the global epidemic of tobacco use could rise to 8 million by 2030. Having killed 100 million people during the 20th century, tobacco use could kill 1 billion during the 21st century.
(Source: who.int)
