WNTD Activities 31st May, 2010  Save as Bookmark  Send this Page to Friend. World No Tobacco Day Home   World No Tobacco Day Wallpapers   Ouit Smoking Planner   Public Health   Tobacco Truths   Tobacco Use Facts   Wallpapers   WNTD Activities   World No Tobacco Day Ecards   Worldwide Efforts * Quit and Win competitions to encourage group participation in smoking cessation. * Media campaigns to draw attention to the scope of tobacco-related disease. * Media stories focusing on individual tobacco users and the strategies that helped them succeed in stopping. * Lobbying of professional bodies representing health workers (e.g. doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists) to adopt smoking cessation as a major issue for healthcare professionals. * Lobbying government and other providers of health care to give a higher priority to smoking cessation services. * Forming alliances to increase public awareness and action on quitting smoking. Eight counties in Florida coordinated efforts around World No Tobacco Day. Tobacco Prevention Coordinators at the local county health departments organized SWAT (Students Working Against Tobacco) to participate in the local activities. On May 31, 2002, the Illinois Department of Public Health, Tobacco-Free Communities Program hosted an event at the state capitol to honor Illinois' 4,000th smoke-free restaurant and showcase community activities implemented by partners around the state. Local tobacco control coalitions in Michigan participated in local media and policy activities promoting tobacco-free sports. Activities included interviews with local athletes and Olympic hopefuls to explain the importance of avoiding tobacco use in sports. Following the media event, athletes promoted activities that support smoke-free policies in places frequented by young people.     Ideas For Easy-to-do Joint Wntd Activities A number of global partnerships are working on joint WNTD activities. Below are some ideas for easy-to-do solidarity projects/actions that can be incorporate along with global partner into respective WNTD activities. Bringing Home Tobacco'S Global Toll Hold solidarity "funeral processions" for the 100 million people that the tobacco industry killed worldwide last century. Message: if the tobacco industry is not controlled, it will kill 1 BILLION people this century. End with a rally and/or press conference. What Big Tobacco'S Up To Around The World Put together a simple exhibit of tobacco advertising from around the world to display at your WNTD event or in a public place. In particular, you may want to focus on sports. Gather Support For A Tobacco Control Initiative Abroad Involve your community in supporting a tobacco control initiative. Write up a short petition and/or a sample letter in support of the campaign. Collect as many signatures as you can at your event. After your event, send the petitions/letters to your partner to use in bolstering political support for the campaign. Alternative: have event attendees sign a banner with a message of support (e.g. "Maryland supports smoke-free hospitals in Romania!"), that your global partner can use at public events, demonstrations, & press conferences. Exchange Messages Of Solidarity Message of solidarity to be read aloud, included in press packets, and/or publicly displayed. If you work with youth, you may want to exchange multiple short messages of solidarity to be read by many different youth or otherwise incorporated into your activities. Media Coverage Use good visuals and human interest stories to gain media coverage.