Thursday May 31st marks World No Tobacco Day

We were also joined by Adeliah Jacobs - Regional manager of the CANSA Cape Metro Care Centre. We were talking about the dangers of smoking and commemorating the World No Tobacco Day. Thursday May 31^st marks World No Tobacco Day as its use is one of the leading preventable causes of death and since the global tobacco epidemic kills nearly 6 million people each year, of which more than 600,000 are people exposed to second-hand smoke according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). It’s warned that unless we act, it will kill up to 8 million people by 2030, of which more than 80% will live in low- and middle-income countries. Cansa reported that “over 44 000 South Africans die from tobacco-related diseases annually and many more become ill from using tobacco products such as snus, snuff, water pipes (hubbly bubbly) and inhaling second-hand smoke.” Sign up and join Cansa’s eKick Butt programme which is a unique online smoking cessation programme working through a series of emails, surveys and downloads, that will guide smokers and mentor them as they quit smoking and non-smoking becomes a lifelong habit, not merely the time interval between two cigarettes. The programme supplies a series of handy tools to help smokers quit for good. For further information you can contact Cansa on (021) 689 5347 or visit the website www.cansa.org.za