World No Tobacco Day 2012

The theme of World No Tobacco Day is "tobacco industry interference". The global campaign will focus on the need to expose and counter the tobacco industry's brazen and increasingly aggressive attempts to undermine the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control as called for in the treaty's Article 5.3.

World No Tobacco Day 2012 provides an opportunity to educate policy-makers and the general public about the tobacco industry's nefarious and harmful tactics.

WHO urges all countries to put the fight against tobacco industry interference at the heart of their efforts to control the global tobacco epidemic and save millions of lives.

Winners of the World No Tobacco Day Award

Director-General's Special Recognition of Contribution to Global Tobacco Control

• People's Republic of China
  Professor Chen Zhu
  Minister of Health

Certificate of Appreciation

• Republic of the Philippines
  Atty. Francis N. Tolentino
  Chairman, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority
• Republic of Korea
  Korean Association on Smoking or Health

Campaign materials

• global brief
• information sheet
• poster
• video-English
• video-French