Director, Department of Noncommunicable Diseases, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.
Regional Advisor, Tobacco Free Initiative, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.
East Mediterr Health J. 2022 May 29;28(5):319-320. doi: 10.26719/2022.28.5.319.
The 2022 World No-Tobacco Day campaign focuses on tobacco's threat to the environment. It aims to raise awareness on the environmental impact of tobacco throughout its lifecycle, demonstrating its destructive impact not only on human health, but also on the environment and the planet. It also aims to expose efforts of the tobacco industry to "greenwash" their reputation and products by increasingly portraying their activities as environmentally friendly. The campaign messages demonstrate the varied ways that tobacco cultivation, production, distribution, consumption, and post-consumer waste threaten the environment. Tobacco destroys forests, harms the soil, affects water supply, pollutes the air, and contributes to other types of unsustainable environmental damage.
2022 年世界无烟日运动的重点是烟草对环境的威胁。它旨在提高人们对烟草在其整个生命周期中对环境影响的认识，展示其不仅对人类健康，而且对环境和地球造成的破坏性影响。它还旨在揭露烟草业通过越来越多地将其活动描绘成环保来“洗白”其声誉和产品的努力。运动信息展示了烟草种植、生产、分销、消费和消费后废物对环境造成威胁的各种方式。烟草破坏森林、损害土壤、影响水供应、污染空气，并造成其他类型的不可持续的环境破坏。
