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World No Tobacco Day is observed around the world every year on May 31. The member states of the World Health Organization created World No Tobacco Day in 1987. It draws global attention to the tobacco epidemic and to the preventable death and disease it causes.

History

  • In 1987, the World Health Assembly passed Resolution WHA40.38, calling for April 7 1988 to be "a world no-smoking day."
  • In 1988, Resolution WHA42.19 was passed, calling for the celebration of World No Tobacco Day, every year on 31 May.
  • In 2006, a smoking ban took effect in Ontario and Quebec on May 31.

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