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 Tobacco-free sports: Towards a tobacco-free generation

WHO has selected “Tobacco-free sports” as the theme for World No Tobacco Day 2002 to:

expose how tobacco companies manipulate sporting events and teams through advertising, sponsorship and promotion

show how tobacco advertising, sponsorship and promotion run counter to the ideals of health and fair play embodied in sports

stress that tobacco use negatively affects health, sporting performance and physical fitness

demonstrate how the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) will seek global and national solutions for tobacco-related problems.

Tobacco is the only legal consumer product that kills when used exactly as intended by the manufacturer. World No Tobacco Day will help to save more lives and to limit the damage caused by tobacco use.

The key messages of this year’s World No Tobacco Day are:

Tobacco and sports do not mix.

Tobacco advertising, sponsorship and promotion should be banned.

Tobacco consumption and exposure to second-hand smoke should be prohibited.

Future generations must be protected from the preventable death and disease caused by tobacco.

Health and healthy living is everyone’s right.

All countries have a moral obligation to adopt the WHO FCTC to save lives.
 
Awards PDF Print

Every year, the World Health Organization (WHO) presents awards to key people and/or organizations that have made valuable contributions to tobacco control and have helped make World No Tobacco Day and its theme a great success. These awards are an expression of WHO's appreciation of the great time and effort that these contributors have invested in the campaigns, as well as in fighting tobacco.

This year, six World No Tobacco Day awards were presented to:

Dr Mariam Al-Jalahma, Assistant Undersecretary for Primary Care and Public Health, Bahrain

Dr Hamdy El Sayed, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Head of the Egyptian Medical Syndicate, Egypt

Dr Alireza Mesdaghinia, Deputy for Health, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Islamic Republic of Iran

Mrs Mawya Zawawi Hammad, Founder and General Director, Lina and Green Hand Society, Jordan

Dr Jawad Ahmed Al Lawati, Director of Non-Communicable Diseases Department, Ministry of Health, Oman

Dr Alaa Aldeen Abdalla Abo Zed, Associated Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Khartoum University, Sudan

These individuals are strong tobacco control advocates and have actively contributed to various tobacco control-related activities at national level, particularly the implementation of tobacco control laws. Their role in advancing and implementing specific articles of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control has been instrumental.
 
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Regional Director's message

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Brochure

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Fact sheets

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Image of the World No Tobacco Day 2005 poster, showing a number of health professionals from the various medical disciplines, explaining exactly who they are and the role they can play in support of tobacco control, in Arabic, English and French.

Poster (Health professionals against tobacco)

Image of the World No Tobacco Day 2005 poster, showing the code of practice for health professionals on tobacco control, in Arabic, English and French.

Poster (Code of practice)
 
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Regional Director’s message

Flyer.

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Image of the World No Tobacco Day 2007 poster, showing a café with a smoke-free environment.

Poster [Café]

Image of the World No Tobacco Day 2007 poster, showing a car repair workshop with a smoke-free environment.

Poster [Workshop]
 
Disease surveillance PDF Print

Recommended case classifications of diphtheria

A probable case of diptheria is a case that meets the clinical description of an illness characterized by laryngitis or pharyngitis or tonsillitis, and by an adherent membrane of the tonsils, pharynx and/or nose.

Confirmed case

A confirmed case is a probable case that is laboratory confirmed or linked epidemiologically to a laboratory-confirmed case of isolation of Corynebacterium diphtheriae from a clinical specimen, or fourfold or greater rise in serum antibody (but only if both serum samples were obtained before the administration of diphtheria toxoid or antitoxin).

Surveillance of diphtheria consists of a routine monthly report of probable or confirmed diphtheria cases; and immediate investigation of all diphtheria outbreaks with collection of case-based data. Monitoring the number of infants who have received the third dose of diphtheria toxoid-containing vaccine (DPT3) is also important. In countries with low incidence (usually where coverage is >85%–90%) immediate reporting of case-based data of probable or confirmed cases is recommended from peripheral level to intermediate and central levels.

WHO-recommended surveillance standard of diphtheria

Global and regional data, statistics and graphics

 
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