Unprecedented act against smoking addiction

Unprecedented act against smoking addiction

The Green Crescent Society comes out with an unprecedented act at the traffic lights of Suadiye Saskinbakkal to attract attention to harms of tobacco with reference to World No Tobacco Day, May 31.

World Health Organization (WHO) declared May 31 as World No Tobacco Day to remark harms of tobacco use, review policies by country, produce new policies and examine the rates of tobacco use in countries affiliated to WHO. Every year, a slogan is determined by World Health Organization on May 31. The determined slogan of this year is presented as “Tobacco breaks heart”.

 The Green Crescent Society comes out with an unprecedented act at the traffic lights of Suadiye Saskinbakkal to attract attention to harms of tobacco with reference to World No Tobacco Day, May 31. With the determination of World No Tobacco Day concept of this year as heart health, The Green Crescent set heart-shaped traffic lights at Saskinbakkal. The people in the role of people with copd and heart disease were connected to serums at the red traffic lights and they warned citizens with the banners against tobacco use by crossing over. Also, this act of The Green Crescent drew quite interest with the banner written World No Tobacco Day on May 31 in traffic.