WORLD NO-TOBACCO DAY

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[02:18 pm] 31 May, 2006

“Tobacco is deadly in any form – directly or indirectly”. With this
motto all the member countries of the World Health Organization
celebrated the World No-Tobacco Day – May 31.

The WHO calls on all the individuals and organizations join the combat
against tobacco. At present, according to Alexander Bazarchyan, the
coordinator of the tobacco control program of the Ministry of Health,
the number of smokers does not tend to increase in Armenia.

“If six years ago 63% of men and 1.2% of women smoked, now the
percentage of smoking men has decreased by 5-6%. As for women,
if they used to conceal the fact that they smoke, not they do it
more manifestly. In the capital 9% of 55-64-year old women and 5%
of the 25-30-year-old women smoke. In the regions their number is
much lower,” Alexander Bazarchyan says and adds that the children
make their first serious attempts of smoking at the age of 13-15.

The combat against tobacco started in 1960s in Great Britain and
the USA.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress