World No Tobacco Day 2020

Over time, the tobacco industry has deliberately employed strategic, aggressive and well-resourced tactics to attract youth to tobacco and nicotine products. Internal industry documents reveal in-depth research and calculated approaches designed to attract a new generation of tobacco users, from product design to marketing campaigns aimed at replacing the millions of people who die each year from tobacco-attributable diseases with new consumers who happen to be the youth.

In response to the tobacco and related industries’ systematic and sustained tactics to attract a new generation of tobacco users, World No Tobacco Day 2020 will provide a counter-marketing campaign and empower young people to engage in the fight against Big Tobacco.
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The World No Tobacco Day 2020 global campaign will serve to:

• Debunk myths and expose tactics employed by the tobacco and related industries, particularly marketing tactics targeted at youth, including through the introduction of new and novel products, flavours and other attractive features.

 

• Equip young people with knowledge about the tobacco and related industries’ intentions and tactics to hook current and future generations on tobacco and nicotine products.

 

• Empower influencers (in pop culture, on social media, in the home, or in the classroom) to protect and defend youth and catalyze change by engaging them in the fight against Tobacco promotion.

WHO urges influencers in pop culture, on social media, in the home, or in the classroom who reach and connect with youth to expose the industries’ tactics to create a new generation of tobacco users.  .

Click here to learn more about World Tobacco Day 2020.
 
Source: WHO