World goes smoke free A student stands near a no smoke sign during a campaign marking the No Tobacco Day in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 31, 2011. (AP) Bhikhabahi Patel, a farmer and President of the Kheda District Kisan Congress, displays processed tobacco at his storage facility at Rampura village, some 65 kms from Ahmedabad, on May 30, 2011, on the eve of World No Tobacco Day. Tobacco farmers are heavily taxed by the state government of Gujarat. The state recently launched Tobacco Free Gujarat campaign is likely to increase difficulties for farmers as they are driven to plant alternative crops on their land. (AFP) A farmer sorts stripped tobacco stalks, to be used as firewood following the harvest season, at Rampura village, some 65 kms from Ahmedabad, on May 30, 2011, on the eve of World No Tobacco Day. Tobacco farmers are heavily taxed by the state government of Gujarat. Anti-smoking campaigns such as the Tobacco Free Gujarat campaign are likely to increase difficulties for farmers as they are driven to plant alternative crops on their land. (AFP) An oversized high-heeled shoe installation, made from 15,000 sticks of cigarettes by anti-tobacco campaigners, is displayed inside a shopping mall on the eve of World Anti-Tobacco Day in Mumbai on May 30, 2010. India is the world's second-largest producer and consumer of tobacco behind China, according to the American Cancer Society and the World Lung Foundation. (AFP) Shoppers walk past an installation in the design of a car, made from 200,000 sticks of cigarettes by anti-tobacco campaigners, at a shopping mall on the eve of World Anti-Tobacco Day in Mumbai on May 30, 2010. India is the world's second-largest producer and consumer of tobacco, according to the American Cancer Society and the World Lung Foundation. About a fifth of Indians, or 241 million people, use tobacco in some form. (AFP) An Indonesian activist parades an effigy with cigarettes protruding from its body during a protest in Surabaya city in East Java province on May 29, 2011 ahead of the World No Tobacco Day that falls on May 31, 2011. Cigarette consumption in the Southeast Asian archipelago of some 240 million people soared 47 percent in the 1990s and has one of the highest smoking rates in the world according to WHO. (AFP) A cigarette vendor sits beside a tray containing various local tobacco brands at a Jakarta sidewalk on May 19, 2011. Cigarettes are often the second biggest item of household expenditure after food for Indonesia's poorest families. The country of some 240 million people is one of the strict major tobacco markets in the world and is paying the price in terms of growing rates of addiction, especially among women and children. Cigarette consumption in Indonesia soared 47 percent in the 1990s, according to WHO. (AFP) British American Tobacco Australia chief executive David Crow launches a national media campaign against plain packaging for cigarettes in Sydney on May 17, 2011. Despite the fact that over 15,000 Australians die of smoking-related diseases every year, the tobacco industry threatened to slash the price of cigarettes if Australia goes ahead with plans to introduce plain packaging plastered with graphic health warnings. (AFP) Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Whats App Pin Interest
