煙草是生長在南美洲的一種野生植物，最初印第安人將煙葉口嚼或做成卷煙燃燒吸吮。煙草在全球盛行了200多年，直到20世紀(jì)，人類才開始認(rèn)識(shí)到煙草對(duì)人類的危害。1977年，美國癌腫協(xié)會(huì)首先提出了控制吸煙的一種宣傳教育方式——無煙日。這天，在美國全國范圍內(nèi)進(jìn)行“吸煙危害健康”的宣傳，勸阻吸煙者在當(dāng)天不吸煙，商店停售煙草制品一天。美國把每年11月第3周的星期四定為本國的無煙日。以后，英國、馬來西亞、中國等國家和地區(qū)也相繼制定了無煙日。
Tobacco is a wild plant grown in South America, the first Indian to cigarettes made of tobacco chewing or sucking combustion. Tobacco is popular in the world for 200 years, until twentieth Century, people began to realize the tobacco harm to human. In 1977, USA first proposed the cancer association of tobacco control as a publicity and Education -- no tobacco day. On that day, "smoking is harmful to health" campaign in American nationwide to discourage smokers, smoking in the day, the shop the sale of tobacco products a day. The third week of November each year American Thursday its no smoking day. Later, Britain, Malaysia, China and other countries and regions have established no tobacco day.
1987年11月，聯(lián)合國世界衛(wèi)生組織建議將每年的4月7日定為“世界無煙日”，并于1988年開始執(zhí)行。但因4月7日是世界衛(wèi)生組織成立的紀(jì)念日，每年的這一天，世界衛(wèi)生組織都要提出一項(xiàng)保健要求的主題。為了不干擾其衛(wèi)生主題的提出，世界衛(wèi)生組織決定從1989年起將每年的5月31日定為世界無煙日，中國也將該日作為中國的無煙日。
In 1987 November, the United Nations World Health Organization recommends that defined April 7th in every year as World No Tobacco Day ", and in 1988 started. But April 7th is the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization, every year on this day, the World Health Organization have proposed a health care demands of the subject. In order to propose not to interfere with their health topics, WHO decided from 1989 to May 31st of each year as World No Tobacco Day, Chinese the day as Chinese No Tobacco day.
