On the 31st of “World No Tobacco Day”, Aomori City officials called for a ban on passive smoking.
WHO = The World Health Organization has set May 31 as “World No Tobacco Day” with the aim of realizing a smoke-free society.
In the park in front of Aomori Station, about 20 people, including city officials, called for a ban on secondhand smoking.
Saying, “Today is World No Tobacco Day,” the staff handed out pocket tissues that said the prefecture’s ordinance aimed at curbing passive smoking was enforced in March this year.
Kazuyoshi Higuchi, head of the Aomori City Health Promotion Division, said, “Some people were the first to know that today was No Smoking Day. .
In addition, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will designate a week from the 31st as “No Smoking Week”, and “Aspam” in Aomori City will be lit up in yellow green, a symbolic color of stopping passive smoking, until the 6th of next month.
