CAMAGÜEY.- This province hosts the national celebrations for World No Tobacco Day on May 31st, thanks to the preventive work carried out during the past year by the Provincial Department of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (Prosalud).

Among the actions that distinguish the aforementioned care unit, the modification of lifestyles with the active participation of other sectors stood out, and although cancer in the territory constitutes the third cause of death, lung cancer, specifically, did not increase its presence.

As explained at a press conference by Iluminada Menéndez Placeres, director of the Provincial Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology, to celebrate the date, several activities were organized in the province of Camagüey, including a scientific conference on Public Health where smoking and its effects for health and pregnancy will be discussed.

On Avenida de la Libertad, located in this city, the main celebrations took place on the 31st and there were demonstrative projects with children, who seek to prevent the development of vice.

In conjunction with the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba and the unions, some 12 labor groups will be accredited as smoke-free centers, as explained by Yamilka González Almeida, Prosalud coordinator of the tobacco prevention program.

However, during the month of May they make surprise visits to those places that hold the condition, some 665 departments and 220 units throughout the province, to ratify the recognition, added González Almeida.

On May 31st, the date is celebrated at the proposal of the World Health Organization, a day in which activities that promote the reduction of smoking are favored.

Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez