May 31 is World No Tobacco Day. The theme for World Tobacco Day 2012 is Tobacco industry interference. The World Health Organisation (WHO) urged governments in Southeast Asia to beware of the tobacco industry's interference in tobacco control programme by targeting the youths through increased advertising budgets in several countries. On the occasion of World No Tobacco Day May 31 (Thursday) the WHO said that as countries move to meet their obligations under the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) the tobacco industry is becoming more aggressive in its attempts to undermine the treaty by acting against the policies contained
