May 31 marks No-Tobacco Day

The theme of this year's World No-Tobacco Day on May 31 is "Sport and the arts without tobacco." Portraying athletes and artists as role models of a "smoke-free" and therefore healthy lifestyle can provide a powerful means of conveying the stop-smoking message to the public, and young people in particular, the World Health Organization said in a special edition of Tobacco Alert. World No-Tobacco Day is an opportunity to appeal to everyone who smokes or chews tobacco to give up the habit, WHO said.

| CMAJ May 15, 1996 (vol 154, no 10) |