世界無煙日
有人做過這樣的預言：如果地球上有一天斷了煙，天下可能會大亂.此話可能是危言聳聽，但是煙害的嚴重性是不能低估的.
抽煙之危害，可謂大矣，而切是全球性的.目前全球約有13億煙民，其中6.5億人會吸煙早逝.在中國，抽煙者多達億萬.隱君子們說，一天不吃可以，一個時辰不抽煙就難熬了.抽煙污染空氣，損害健康，使肺癌發病率大大增加.
為了使世界各國人民關注煙草的盛行及預防吸煙導致的疾病和死亡，世界衛生組織成員國在1987年創立了"世界無煙日".現在，每年的5月13日被定為"世界無煙日".吸煙有害已家喻戶曉，禁止吸煙的公共場所也日益增多.社會輿論長時期開展的有針對性的宣傳，以及隨之而創造的一些有效的戒嚴方法的推廣，產生了積極效果，不少人向香煙吻別.隱君子從戒煙中吃盡了苦頭，也嘗到了甜頭.戒煙貴在堅持，堅持下去就是收獲.
但是，戒嚴者終究還是少數，主要是中年以上，患疾病的人和知識分子.最另人擔憂的是青年人吸煙，染上抽煙壞習慣的年輕人日益增多.有關統計表明，全球13歲至15歲年齡段少年的吸煙率已達20%.
煙癮難戒，但并非不能戒.如果占全球三分之一的我國煙民能夠在今天--世界無煙日-開始抵擋住香煙的誘惑，為了自己的健康和周圍親朋好友的健康一天不吸煙，乃至盡早戒煙，那將會創造出不可估量的效益.
World No Tobacco Day
Someone has prophesied that once tabocco disappears from the earth the whole world is likely to be in great disoder. This might be an exaggeration, but the danger of smoking cannot be underestimated.
Smoking is a curse which affacts the whole globe. Currently, there are 1.3 billion smokers across the world, among whom 650 million would die earlier due to smoking. China alone has hundreds of millions of smokers. Addicted smokers say that they can do without food for a day but cannot endure the suffering for two hours without smoking a cigarette. Smoking pollutes the air and damages the health, consequently increasing the incidence of lung cancer substatially.
The member states of the World Health Organization created a WorldNo-smoking Day in 1987 to draw global attention to the tobacco epidemic and prevention of disease and death it causes. Now May 31 of each year is known as the World No Tobacco Day. The harm of smoking has been proverbial, and the numbers of no-smoking public places are on the increase. The pertinent publicity afforded by public opinion over a long time and the popularization of effective ways of giving up smoking have produced such positive and desirable results that many addicts have kissed tobacoo good-bye. They have, after suffering a lot in the process of quitting smoke, been amply rewarded by the resultant benefit. The key to quitting smoking altogether lies in perservance, which is the surest road to success.
It is to be admitted , however, that only a small number of addicts have made a clean break, mainly among middle-aged and older disease-ridden peopel and intellectuals. What causes real concern is the fact that an increasing number of young people have developed a smoking habit. According to certain statistics,20 percent of youngsters of 13 to 15 years old worldwide are now smokers.
It is difficult but not impossible to quit smoking. Beginning from today- the World No Tobacco Day, if smokers in our country, who account for one-third of the world's smokers, can resist the temptation of tobacco to leave off smoking for one day and manage to give up smoking as early as possible for their own health and for the health of their relatives and friends,then immeasurable benefits will be created.