World No Tobacco Day 2023

Grow food, not tobacco

This campaign encourages governments to end tobacco growing subsidies and use the savings to support farmers to switch to more sustainable crops that improve food security and nutrition. 

Campaign objectives 

1. Mobilize governments to end subsidies on tobacco growing and use of savings for crop substitution programmes that support farmers to switch and improve food security and nutrition.
   
2. Raise awareness in tobacco farming communities about the benefits of moving away from tobacco and growing sustainable crops;
3. Support efforts to combat desertification and environmental degradation by decreasing tobacco farming;
4. Expose industry efforts to obstruct sustainable livelihoods work.

The key measure of campaign success would be the number of governments that pledge to end subsidies on tobacco growing.

WHO Director-General Special award:

Dr Odete Maria Freitas Belo, Minister of Health, Timor-Leste

1. Indonesian Multiculture Farmers Forum (FPMI), Indonesia
2. Centre for multi-disciplinary development research (CMDR), Dharwad, India
3. National Statistical Office, Thailand
4. State Tobacco Control Cell (STCC), Government of Meghalaya, India

1. Dr. Ugen Dophu, Former Health Secretary, Ministry of Health, Bhutan
2. Balajee Sewa Sansthan (BSS), Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
3. Dr Agus Dwi Susanto, President Director, RSUP Persahabatan (National Respiratory Centre) and Chairman for Indonesian Society of Respirology (PDPI), Indonesia
4. Department of Health, Himachal Pradesh, India
5. Pol. Col. Prateep Charoengul, Deputy Secretary General of the Office of the Consumer Protection Board, Thailand

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