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MMWR
World No-Tobacco Day – May 31, 2002
Notice to Readers
May 24, 2002 / Vol. 51 / No. 20
 "Tobacco-Free
Sports—Play It Clean" is the theme designated by the World Health
Organization (WHO) for this year’s World No-Tobacco Day, May 31, 2002. This
year’s theme is intended to raise awareness about the dangers of tobacco
use, to heighten concern about the marketing and advertising of tobacco
products through sports, and to promote participation in sports and physical
activity as a healthy alternative to tobacco use. By 2030, tobacco use will
cause an estimated 10 million deaths each year worldwide 1.
Because sports have a universal appeal, WHO and CDC are collaborating to
encourage tobacco-free policies and health promotion activities at sporting
events worldwide.
In 1986, the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)
stopped accepting tobacco advertising or sponsorship for the FIFA World Cup.
The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) tobacco-free Olympics tradition
began at the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary. Since then, all Olympic
Games have been smoke-free 2. In February 2002, CDC and WHO, in
collaboration with the IOC, evaluated the smoke-free policies of both the
IOC and the 2002 Salt Lake City Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter
Games. An on-site assessment by CDC found high levels of awareness of, and
compliance with, the Olympic policies among athletes, journalists, and
spectators. Approximately 75% of those who responded to the assessment
survey thought the IOC should require all of the bidding cities for the
Olympic Games to implement a tobacco-free policy (CDC, unpublished data,
2002).
The 2002 FIFA World Cup begins May 31 in Seoul. To ensure
that athletes and visitors at this event have a smoke-free environment, WHO
and CDC worked with FIFA on a tobacco-free policy. The tobacco-free sports
theme also will be highlighted at the American College of Sports Medicine’s
annual meeting in St. Louis, which will be held in conjunction with IOC’s
Sports Science Congress, May 28–June 1, 2002.
Additional information about World No-Tobacco Day 2002 is
available from WHO at
http://tobacco.who.int * and from CDC at
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco,
telephone 800-232-1311.
References
1. World Health Organization. Combating the tobacco epidemic. In: World
Health Organization's world health report 1999. Geneva, Switzerland: World
Health Organization, 1999.
2. World Health Organization. Sports and the arts without tobacco: play
it tobacco free. In: Tobacco alert: 1996 World No-Tobacco Day advisory kit.
Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 1996.
MMWR —
World No-Tobacco Day, May 31, 2002 51(20):439, May 24, 2002 (
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World No-Tobacco Day and 2002 FIFA World Cup
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