2024-06-08 01:23:41
World No Tobacco Day is widely known yearly on Could 31, which was established by the WHO in 1987 to attract public consideration to the lethal results of tobacco.
Tobacco is among the critical threats to public well being. Greater than 8 million folks die every year because of tobacco use.
Greater than 7 million of them are tobacco customers and former customers, and greater than 1.2 million are non-smokers uncovered to secondhand smoke.
Based on analysis performed in Armenia, 27.9% of the inhabitants over the age of 16 smoke.
Nearly all of people who smoke are males (51.5% of males, 1.8% of girls), amongst youngsters, 21% of 15-year-old boys and three% of women have ever used cigarettes.
Greater than 5,500 folks die from tobacco-related ailments in Armenia yearly.
All kinds of tobacco merchandise and their substitutes are dangerous to well being, there isn’t a protected dose of them.
We remind you that on February 13, 2020, the legislation “On the discount and prevention of hurt to well being induced by means of tobacco merchandise and their substitutes” was adopted, which limits all tobacco merchandise and their substitutes.
Based on the legislation, the usage of tobacco in all closed and a few open public locations (together with well being, instructional, cultural establishments, lodge amenities, indoor and outside meals institutions), all types of promoting, gross sales (gross sales) promotion and sponsorship are prohibited. additionally different provisions. The legislation is geared toward defending the current and future generations from the unfavorable impression on well being induced by means of tobacco merchandise, in addition to rooting the usage of tobacco merchandise and their substitutes as an unhealthy and unacceptable habits within the inhabitants’s perceptions.
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