A set of anti-smoking postal stamps was jointly issued by the Ministry of Information and Communications and the Ministry of Health at a ceremony in Hanoi on May 31.
Hanoi (VNA) – A set of anti-smoking postal stamps was jointlyissued by the Ministry of Information and Communications and the Ministry ofHealth at a ceremony in Hanoi on May 31.
The stamps, designed by painter Pham Trung Ha ofthe Vietnam Post Corporation, feature two contrary images, a healthy lung of anon-smoker and a black lung of smokers and passive smokers.
The message on the stamps read “Do not smoke forthe health of you and your beloved ones.”
The stamp features two contrary images, a healthy lung of a non-smoker and a black lung of smokers and passive smokers (Photo: Vietnam Post)
Addressing the event, Deputy Minister ofInformation and Communications Nguyen Minh Hong underlined the health effectsof cigarettes and smoking, citing data of the World Health Organisation thatthere are about 7 million deaths from smoking-related diseases, including about900,000 deaths resulted by passive smoking, in the world each year.
Vietnam is among the 15 countries with theworld’s highest smoking prevalence among male adults when one in every two maleadults is a smoker.
Around 40,000 people die of smoking-relateddiseases in the country every year, and many of the diseases like cancers,cardiovascular diseases and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are leadingdeath causes in Vietnam, he noted.
Hong said the stamps will be a multidimensionalmessage helping with the implementation of the national strategy onanti-tobacco harms until 2020 and the law on prevention and control of tobaccoharms. -VNA
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At the launching ceremony (Source: VNA) 
The stamp features two contrary images, a healthy lung of a non-smoker and a black lung of smokers and passive smokers (Photo: Vietnam Post) 
