Every year, the World Health Organization (WHO) presents several awards to key people that have made invaluable contributions to tobacco control as well as those who have helped make World No Tobacco Day (WNTD), its theme and celebration a great success. These awards are a sentiment of appreciation on behalf of WHO to the great efforts and time that these people have invested in the campaign as well as in fighting tobacco. 

This year, six WNTD awards have been presented to the following individuals: 

• Dr Abdullah Mohammed Nasser Al-Bedah Chairman, Anti-smoking Charitable Society, Saudi Arabia.

• Dr Bassam Al-Hijawi Director, Ministry of Health, Jordan.

• Dr Ahmed Abdel Karim Al-Mulla Consultant, Hamad Medical Center, Qatar.

• Dr Wasim Maziak Director, Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies, Syrian Arab Republic.

• Mr Ahmed Abdel-Rahman Mohamed Chairman, National Anti-tobacco Association, Sudan.

• Dr Mostafa Kamal Eldin Mohamed Professor of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University and Principal Investigator, Egyptian Smoking Prevention Research Institute, Egypt.