2010
World No Tobacco Day 2010
Theme: Gender and Tobacco
31 May is World No Tobacco Day. The theme for this year's World No Tobacco Day is 'Gender and Tobacco' with emphasis on marketing to women.
World No Tobacco Day 2010 Global Launch
The international launch of the 23rd World No Tobacco Day was held in Tokyo, Japan, on May 31, 2010. The launch featured a speech by the Regional Director highlighting the burden of tobacco on women worldwide, and the strategies of marketing to women used by the tobacco industry. To read the Regional Director's speech click here.
This year’s theme was Gender, women, and the tobacco epidemic, and focused on the harmful effects of tobacco marketing towards women and girls. The need for governments to ban all tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship and to eliminate tobacco smoke in all public and work places as provided in the WHO FCTC was emphasized.
A press conference was held at the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. A symposium about the theme was held at the National Cancer Centre in Tokyo, an official WHO Collaborating Centre. The new WHO monograph, "Gender, women, and the tobacco epidemic", was presented at the event.
WNTD 2010 Awards
The World No Tobacco Day Award is given to individuals or organizations in recognition of their outstanding contribution in developing, implementing and promoting tobacco control policies and programmes.
The awardees for 2010 are:
Professor Wu Yiqun
Executive Director
ThinkTank Research Center for Health Development
People's Republic of China
Her Excellency Sam An Men
Deputy Prime Minister, Council of Ministers
Cambodia
Professor Xu Guihua
Vice President, Chinese Association on Tobacco Control
People's Republic of China
Mrs Vilaythong MangNormek
Director-General, Lao Women's Union, Ministry of Public Security
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Professor Dr Le Thi Tuyet Lan
Head of Respiratory Care Center
University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City
Viet Nam
Regional and Country Events
Click to see this year's activities in:
WPRO Regional Office
Cambodia [1] [2] [3] [4]
China
Hong Kong (China)
Lao PDR [1] [2]
Malaysia
Mongolia
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Philippines
Viet Nam
Click to read news articles covering activities in:
Fiji [1] [2] [3]
Lao PDR
Papua New Guinea
Samoa [1] [2]
Viet Nam