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2. World No Tobacco Day - Wikipedia

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   Ash trays with fresh flowers are a common symbol of World No Tobacco Day. World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is observed around the world every year on 31 May. The annual observance informs the public on the dangers of using tobacco, the business practices of tobacco companies, what the World Health Organization (WHO) is doing to fight against the use of tobacco, and what people around the world can ...

3. No Smoking Day - Wikipedia

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   No Smoking Day is an annual health awareness day in the United Kingdom which is intended to help smokers who want to quit smoking. The first No Smoking Day was on Ash Wednesday [2] in 1984, [3] and it now takes place on the second Wednesday in March. Each year, the campaign is promoted with a theme in the form of a short phrase.

4. Smoking cessation - Wikipedia

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   The World Health Organization's World No Tobacco Day is held on May 31 each year. Smoking-cessation support is often offered over the telephone quitlines [ 75 ] [ 76 ] (e.g., the US toll-free number 1-800-QUIT-NOW), or in person.

5. Great American Smokeout - Wikipedia

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   In 1974, a "Don't Smoke Day" (or "D-Day") was promoted by Lynn R. Smith of the Monticello Times in Monticello, Minnesota. [1] On November 18, 1976, the California Division of the American Cancer Society successfully prompted nearly one million smokers to quit for the day. That California event marked the first Smokeout.

6. History of smoking - Wikipedia

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   Gentlemen Smoking and Playing Backgammon in a Tavern by Dirck Hals, 1627. A Frenchman named Jean Nicot (from whose name the word nicotine derives) introduced tobacco to France in 1560 from Portugal. From there, it spread to England. The first report of a smoking Englishman is of a sailor in Bristol in 1556, seen "emitting smoke from his ...

7. Smoking ban - Wikipedia

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   Smoking was banned in Berlin in 1723, in Königsberg in 1742, and in Stettin in 1744. These bans were repealed in the revolutions of 1848. [27] Prior to 1865 Russia had a ban on smoking in the streets. [28] The first building in the world to ban smoking was the Old Government Building in Wellington, New Zealand in 1876. The ban related to ...

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9. Tobacco control - Wikipedia

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   The first attempts to respond to the health consequences to tobacco use followed soon after the introduction of tobacco to Europe. Pope Urban VII's thirteen-day papal reign included the world's first known tobacco use restrictions in 1590 when he threatened to excommunicate anyone who "took tobacco in the porchway of or inside a church, whether it be by chewing it, smoking it with a pipe or ...