#WNTD2025 Deputy Minister, Dr Joe Phaahla at the media and stakeholder networking session today in Midrand explained that the Department was not in favour of a tobacco ban or of calling for it to be declared illegal, but rather advocated for its regulation to control usage to protect non-smokers.
#WNTD2025 :🚭 Cigarette filters are not a health measure.
❗️Tobacco filters pollute. They harm health. They mislead consumers☠️
✅The WHO FCTC supports Parties to take action that protects public health & the environment.
#FCTCSavesLives #FCTCProtectsOurPlanet 🌎
#WNTD2025 Ms Shenaaz EL-Halabi, WHO Representative in South at the World No Tobacco Day Media and Stakeholder Networking Session in Midrand, presented documented demonstrations of the lengths the tobacco industry went to in order to mask the dangers of tobacco. www.facebook.com/share/v/16jw...
Tobacco companies are masking harm and addiction with hype. It’s time to call them out.
Unmask the Appeal. #TobaccoExposed #WNTD2025
Good morning!
A reminder: vaping =/= smoking.
Vaping is safER than smoking.
There's no tobacco in a vape.
#WorldNoTobaccoDay #WNTD
#WorldNoTobaccoDay25 #WNTD25
#WorldNoTobaccoDay2025 #WNTD2025.
Have a great day! #BeKind
#SupportNotStigma
💪 🚭 Our Exec Director Dr Cassandra Kelly-Cirino calls for focus on nurturing the next generation of tobacco control leaders.
On #WorldNoTobaccoDay, why not register for the World Conference on Tobacco Control: www.worldtobaccocontrol.org/registration/
#WNTD2025 #TobaccoControl #UnmaskTheAppeal
Big Tobacco thrives on deception—masking addiction, greenwashing, parading over human rights abuses, & weakening policy.
At ASH, we’re taking action, in courtrooms, at the UN, state legislatures & on the world stage.
More: ow.ly/vAkJ50W1Q4p
#TobaccoExposed #WNTD #WNTD2025
Tobacco companies are targeting youth with highly addictive e-cigarettes, nicotine pouches and other products dressed up as harmless fun.
Unmask the Appeal. #TobaccoExposed #WNTD2025
Now that the Commission has upgraded its rules, it’s high time for the European Parliament to also firm up its Article 5.3 implementation 🚭
This is clearly urgent in the light of the very high numbers of #tobacco industry #lobbying meetings with MEPs, particularly with far right MEPs 🚨
#WNTD2025
During the Barroso and Santer years, the European Commission stubbornly refused introducing strong rules against #tobacco industry interference 🤔
The Commission's new approach to tobacco #lobbying is weaker than what civil society groups had recommended, but a significant step forward 👏
#WNTD2025
Good news!
The European Commission tightens firewall against #tobacco lobbyists, enforcing Article 5.3 of the UN tobacco control treaty 👏
It will meet tobacco industry #lobbyists "only if strictly necessary for the purpose of its activities" 🚭
#WNTD2025
www.corporateeurope.org/en/2025/05/e...
Tomorrow is #WorldNoTobaccoDay
🚫WHO FCTC urges governments to prohibit ingredients that increase product attractiveness and palatability—like flavours & sweeteners.
These additives are designed to hook youth and mask the harm. It's time to act.
fctc.who.int/newsroom/new...
#FCTCSavesLives #WNTD2025
Das WNTD Webinar kann hier nachgesehen werden:
www.who.int/europe/event...
@who.int
@whofctc.bsky.social
#WNTD2025 #UnmaskTheAppeal
#BigTobacco manipulates the design and contents of its harmful products to make them even more attractive & addictive.
Read our #WNTD2025 #TobaccoTactics long read to find out how product components, design, packaging & marketing is used to get people hooked: www.tobaccotactics.org/article/arch...
🚭 #WNTD2025 is approaching—it’s time to unmask the appeal.
Tobacco companies are spending millions to target youth online, exploiting digital loopholes in advertising and sponsorship rules.
The WHO FCTC empowers countries to take action that saves lives.
#FCTCSavesLives
You can rewatch the WNTD Webinar here:
www.who.int/europe/event...
@who.int @whofctc.bsky.social #WNTD2025
💪On this 2025 World No Tobacco Day, the call to action is clear: we must stand united to protect the next generation and secure a healthier, tobacco-free future.
#WNTD2025 #TobaccoControl #PublicHealth
🚭Ahead of #WNTD2025, @whoeurope.bsky.social, SFP, European Respiratory Society, the Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer and The European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention, hosted a high-level workshop in Brussels to raise awareness of the tobacco industry's manipulative tactics. #WNTD2025
Patients who smoke often seek guidance and support from their #doctors in their efforts to stop smoking. However, this essential assistance is undermined when #healthprofessionals themselves engage in smoking.
#wntd2025 #GPs #notobacco #quitsmoking #healthpromotion
Youth smoking in the EU rose from 20% in 2020 to 22% in 2023 and 34.5% of 15–16-year-olds in all ESPAD countries used e-cigarettes in 2024.
It’s time to #UnmaskTheAppeal! Let's push for stronger EU tobacco legislation! 💪
#TobaccoControlEU #WNTD2025 #SFP
The tobacco & nicotine industry is rebranding harm with sleek designs, sweet flavours, & youth-focused marketing.
But behind the shiny packaging lies addiction, disease, and lifelong consequences.
🛑 It’s time to unmask the appeal and protect the next generation.
#FCTCSavesLives #WeAre20 #WNTD2025
Dr Raouf Alebshehy will be delivering a presentation on the targeting of youth by the tobacco industry at a symposium by the World Health Organization and the Slovenian Ministry of Health.
Next Wednesday Dr Raouf Alebshehy will be delivering a presentation on the #tobaccoindustry's targeting of youth for a World No Tobacco Day symposium organised by @who.int and the Slovenian Ministry of Health.
Find out more and register here: nijz.si/dogodki/svet...
#WNTD2025
Con emoción y gratitud, les compartimos que la @who.int reconoció a PODER por #FuturoSinMundo, proyecto que expone los impactos de los dispositivos de tabaco calentado 🚬 en los derechos humanos y las cadenas de valor.✨🔎
🗞️https://bit.ly/4kqak0K
#WNTD2025 #ElNegocioDeLaAdicción
