Ceremony on World No Tobacco Day held in Tehran

Date: 30 May 2016 - 21:11

News ID: ۲۷۲۳۵

TEHRAN (IRNA) – Ceremony on World No Tobacco Day began here Monday at Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education.

The ceremony follows the theme of turning the hookah into the vase.

Experts believe that every time a person uses hookah, it means he/she has smoked cigarettes of five to ten packets.

World No Tobacco Day is observed around the world every year on May 31. It is intended to encourage a 24-hour period of abstinence from all forms of tobacco consumption around the globe.

The day is further intended to draw attention to the widespread prevalence of tobacco use and to negative health effects, which currently lead to nearly 6 million deaths each year worldwide, including 600,000 of which are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke.

The member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) created World No Tobacco Day in 1987.