Tobacco has long been used as one of men's luxury items and as a means of social intercourse.
However, its smoke contains lots of harmful chemical substances such as nicotine, carbon monoxide, ammonia, methyl alcohol and arsenic.
Therefore, smoking can be said to be a slow-death-causing suicide.
The problem is that most smokers do not give up smoking, although they know that it is hazardous to health.
There are several reasons for that.
One of them is that it is easily accessible anywhere.
The theme of this year's World No Tobacco Day (May 31) is “Unmaking the appeal: Exposing industry tactics on tobacco and nicotine products”.
Some tobacco producers keep producing tobacco that is harmful to human health and life, only prioritizing economic profits.
Therefore, different countries prohibit the patronage of tobacco producers. Measures are being taken to reduce purchasing power by systematically raising tobacco prices and taxes, while levies are being imposed on tobacco exporting countries.
It is becoming a social trend to provide various special services for smoking quitters and to impose a lot of restrictions on smokers.
Steps are also being taken to help people quit smoking.
The no-smoking campaign has positively been conducted in the DPRK.
It has taken measures to restrict smoking in society since the late 1980s and waged a no-smoking campaign throughout the whole society since 2005, when it became a party to the framework convention on tobacco control of the WHO.
In 2020 the DPRK tobacco-prohibition law was adopted and its enforcement regulations and detailed rules were enacted.
Our Tobacco Cessation Centre puts up various printed matters and notices about the harmfulness of tobacco at places of its sale and smoking places across the country and conducts various information activities to encourage people to quit smoking.
It measures the nicotine accumulations in the human body using a nicotine-dependence test system program and biological quantum resonance analyzer and provides people with consultation to make them take active part in the cessation campaign.
Such smoking cessation products as nutrition pills, nicotine-based pills, chewing gum and pipe are being produced, and books are published to help those who want to quit smoking.
The DPRK promotes exchanges and cooperation with the WHO to share experience in cessation activities.
It is a trend of the times to give up smoking harmful to health and live in a cultured way in a clean environment.
Smokers have to stop smoking for themselves and their families.
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