World No Tobacco Day 2025

World No Tobacco Day 2025

31 May

Bright products. Dark intentions.

Unmasking the Appeal

 

Appealing flavours, but hidden dangers.
Shameless manipulation of our children, for industry profit.

Every day, tobacco and nicotine industries use carefully engineered products and deceptive tactics to hook a new generation of users and keep existing ones.

Keep the industry out. 

 

An estimated 37 million children aged 13-15 years worldwide use tobacco.

 

In many countries the rate of e-cigarette use of young people exceeds that of adults.

Marketing content promoting e-cigarettes, nicotine pouches and heated tobacco products has been viewed more than 3.4 billion times on social media platforms.

 

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Flavours are found in many nicotine and tobacco products.

There are about 16 000 unique flavours.

Flavours are often cited as the number one reason for initiation of nicotine and tobacco products use.

 

 

A cigarette with sunglasses talking with a waterpipe and vape.
A cigarette with sunglasses and waterpipe talking
A poster with vaper talking
A poster with with a nicotine pouch saying: you guys are so obvious! us nicotine pouches know the trick is to stay hidden...
World No Tobacco Day 2025 comic poster: a cigarette with sunglasses saying Huh !? Who said that!? for a waterpipe and vape
World No Tobacco Day 2025 comic poster with text inside: New Products, same lies. The industry keeps re-inventing itself to make more money.

 

Tobacco and nicotine industries use insidious strategies to make their harmful products appealing, especially to young people.

Manipulative product designs, attractive flavours, and glamourized marketing create a false sense of security and evoke desirability. We need to break the illusion.

Nicotine and tobacco products are highly addictive and designed to sustain use, trapping users in a cycle of dependence. Additives mask the harshness of tobacco, making it easier to start and harder to quit. No more ‘candy coating’.

Removing the appeal of these products through stricter regulations is essential to protecting current and future generations from harm. Don’t let the tobacco and nicotine industries trick people with their playbook.

 

Let’s stand together and make it crystal clear: No more tricks, no more traps.

JOIN THE MOVEMENT: TAKE ACTION

 

 

Campaign resources

Social media

A woman with a lollipop and on the shadow of a vape

 

A man with an ice cream on his hand and in the shadow a cigarette

 

 

Poster

Boy in yellow jacket and brown shorts stands in the middle of a trap full of different tobacco products

 

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