World No Tobacco Day is absorbed on 31st May every year

The theme for this year's No Tobacco Day is “Poisoning our planet”

An estimated 198 million people in the Region smoke and around 266 million use smokeless

According to World Health Organisation  about 600 million trees have been chopped to make cigarettes.

smoke emitted by cigarettes releases about 84 million tonnes of CO2 emissions. This has also contributed to global warming

Smoking can be threatening to the people who smoke the environment  and the beings around them

Tobacco – threat to our environment