{"id":7835,"date":"2022-05-31T08:19:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T08:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7835"},"modified":"2022-05-31T08:19:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T08:19:24","slug":"world-tobacco-day-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7835","title":{"rendered":"World Tobacco Day 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Annually the World Health Organization honors governments, organizations and individuals for their efforts and contributions to curbing tobacco use.<br>World No Tobacco Day is observed on May 31 to raise awareness about the damage caused by consuming tobacco as well as the effects it has on the environment that is environmental degradation.<br>Since 1987 this day is marked each year with a relevant theme. This year, the theme is \u201cProtect the Environment\u201d. According to WHO the harmful impact of the tobacco on the environment is enormous and growing adding unnecessary pressure to our planet&#8217;s already scarce resources and fragile ecosystems.<br>Tobacco smoking is proving to be the leading cause of death for men and the second leading cause when both men and women are included this is due to health complications such as lung cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/png_20220531_111115_0000-1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/png_20220531_111115_0000-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/png_20220531_111115_0000-1-980x980.png 980w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/png_20220531_111115_0000-1-480x480.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annually the World Health Organization honors governments, organizations and individuals for their efforts and contributions to curbing tobacco use.World No Tobacco Day is observed on May 31 to raise awareness about the damage caused by consuming tobacco as well as the effects it has on the environment that is environmental degradation.Since 1987 this day is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/png_20220531_111115_0000.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7838,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions\/7838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}