Overview

• WHO’s 2025 World No Tobacco Day theme, “Unmasking the Appeal,” exposes how flavored products, sleek designs and social media partnerships lure young users into nicotine addiction.
• Health experts caution that e-cigarettes and vaping devices, though marketed as safer, still deliver addictive nicotine and threaten developing brains, hearts and lungs.
• The tobacco lifecycle contributes to environmental harm through deforestation for farming, chemical runoff and billions of toxic cigarette butts polluting land and water.
• Policymakers have expanded bans on flavored tobacco and tightened advertising restrictions this year to block youth-oriented promotional tactics.
• Hospitals and community groups have launched comprehensive cessation initiatives offering counseling, nicotine replacement therapies and holistic support to help users quit.