World No Tobacco Day 2021: Here's Why Quitters Are Winners

World No Tobacco Day 2021: Today is World No Tobacco Day. The theme of 2021 theme and campaign of World No Tobacco Day is: Commit to Quit. Here are facts that show why quitter are winners.

Today is World No Tobacco Day. The 2021 theme and campaign of World No Tobacco Day is: Commit to Quit. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), ''Over 70 per cent of the 1.3 billion tobacco users worldwide lack access to the tools they need to quit successfully. This gap in access to cessation services is only further exacerbated in the last year as the health workforce has been mobilized to handle the coronavirus pandemic''. The first international public health treaty, the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), entered into force and became an international binding law in 2005. A study published in Lancet says, "Ending the global tobacco epidemic is a defining challenge in global health. Timely and comprehensive estimates of the prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden are needed to guide tobacco control efforts nationally and globally."   Monday is World #NoTobacco Day 🚭.The #COVID19 pandemic has led to millions of tobacco users saying they want to protect their health and quit tobacco.Join them! https://t.co/KPMYDjdYFGpic.twitter.com/grA08KJYKu