May 31st is a day the World Health Organization (WHO) and global partner celebrate World No Tobacco Day.
The Health and Welfare Co-operative Federation in Japan implements World No Tobacco Day Poster Contest targeting minors as part of World No Tobacco Day activities. The purpose of this Poster Contest is to educate people and raise awareness of non-smoking activities by using the first winner's poster design and putting up that poster in Health and Welfare Co-operatives nationwide.
It received 428 art pieces in the contest of "2020 WHO5.31 World No Tobacco Day Poster contest." Prize-winning posters were selected at the 2019 Member Activity Exchange Meeting held on February 16-17, 2020.
Here are the first winner (Grand Prize), the best performance and the honorable mention arts.
My dad stopped smoking. Please live a long and happy life dad.
by 10 years old boy in Fukushima Prefecture
[Best Performance Award] 1 work
I give you a gold medal for having been nonsmoking.
by 10 years old girl in Yamagata Prefecture
[Honorable Mention] 3 works
Please care about people around you.
by 16 years old boy in Hyogo Prefecture
No smoking please!!
by 16 years old girl in Hyogo Prefecture
Isn't your smoking hurting people around you?
by 14 years old girl in Gunma Prefecture.
tags: The Health and Welfare Co-operative Federation, WHO, World No Tobacco Day