Present there were officials in the field of public health, ministries, national institutions and public organizations and the acting representative of the WHO, members of missions of international organizations, foreign diplomatic envoys and foreign embassy officials here.

Speakers said that WHO set it as a theme for this year to prevent the smuggling of tobacco goods in order to intensify the no-smoking campaign.

They called for strengthening the propaganda activities against negative aftermath of smuggling of tobacco goods on a socio-economic life and people's health and increasing the degree of control and supervision in order to thoroughly prevent the smuggling and decisively bringing down the number of people smoking.

There was a briefing on the WHO's convention on tobacco control framework and protocol on banning illegal tobacco dealing.

They watched a video on the control over sale of tobacco and enjoyed a performance given by a hygienic information disseminating team of pupils.