Let’s fight against tobacco?
“Tobacco industry interference” is the theme of this year’s World No Tobacco Day, which is celebrated today, on May 31st. The date, created in 1987 by the World Health Organization, aims to raise awareness about the dangers of tobacco, as well as encourage the society stake their claim to a healthier life.
In 2012, the campaign will focus on the need to expose and counter the tobacco industry’s brazen and increasingly aggressive attempts to undermine the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) because of the serious danger they pose to public health.
Did you know that tobacco kills nearly 6 million people each year? By 2030, it will kill up to 8 million people of we don’t start acting now. Pretty scary, huh?
So, how can we help reduce this number and improve the quality of life and make the planet a healthier place to live in?
Well it starts with you! For those who want to quit smoking, here are some numerous effective ways to do it. Click here and check it out!
Source: World Health Organization
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Hello.
This is one of my favorite issues, cause I could give it up. It was eight years ago. I had tried to give it up for some times before. I even had cried thinking I could never get it. My smoking habit was hard. I thought it was impossible to me. But one night i had to go to a Hospital because of an strange alergic attack. I was suffering a little from asthma too two years ago. I was for one hour or two at Hospital. Then, when I was out of Hospital it was almost 12 o´clock at night, I looked at the sky, it was cold, and I saw the Pleyades (it does not matter, but I remmember that) And watching them I said: “I give it up smoking forever” People with me they dont believe me because I had tried it before. I repeated I´ll never smoke again. I don´t know why one thing that had been impossible to me, then it turned so easy. At the next morning, when I woke up I was in fear, cause I always had a cup of cofee and a cigar… I woke up, I prepared the coffee, I drank one cup and then… I saw the box of cigarettes I had left on the table in the saloon before I go to doctor the night before. I saw it and I thought: “what is that? I´don´t need it, this is not mine” I got the box and others I had and throw them to dustbin. I had always thought what should I do with my hands the day I wont smoke and other thinkings… Nothing at all was then in my mind about that. I continued doing my daily life, but not smoking and I really did not need it. I could not believe what I was doing. People who knew me either. They were laughing not believeng me. Some days later they did not laugh. It was true. And I was not in the need of doing special things to avoid the wish of smoking. It was as if my brain “told me” that I never had smoked and I did not need to do it.
Eight years later, I am here, I have no alergic things, no asthma (though it was just a little asthma the one I had) and no smoking anymore since that night.
So, I want to say that if you cant do it for yourself, go to doctors to help you, or good proffessionals, and I hope you that smoke will give it up forever. BElieve that you can, even though now you see it impossible. I tell this because I know by my own experience that it is possible.
Nowadays I had a strange feelling between hating smoking smell and passing of it. I dont need that anymore.
Please, dont think it is easy to give it up. I had a lot of luck, doctors and people said to me when I told them what happened to me. A lot of luck… I cant believe what I did even today, but I did it, and this is all I mind. And if I did it, everybody can do, cause I am not anything special. I hated people who asked me not to smoke…. I got furious sometimes, I had to smoke (smoking can be a hard vicious). Now I understand them and I have asked excuses for that. They said me i was not in the needed of presenting excuses, that was what it was…. but I knew then the other side of the story and they wanted me to be healthy, though I thought it was bad for me…
I smoked a lot of cigars, more than 15 kinds of them, since I was almost a child… I dont hate cigars now cause i cant hate this, but I dont like it. Thats all.
So, you all can do it. If you cant by yourself, look for help.
It is nice to live without bad insane smoke in your life.