May 31st is World No Tobacco Day.

Today, the exhibition "tobacco: burden and solution" sponsored by WHO is launched in the United Nations Joint Pavilion in World Expo, Shanghai.

Through a lot of startling figures, headlines and pictures, the exhibition has brought more than 5 million deaths from tobacco every year to the world, and 1 of the deaths of every 10 adults are caused by tobacco, which is vividly presented to visitors to let people know about the diseases caused by smoking, thus emphasizing the necessity of global tobacco control.

It is predicted that tobacco will kill 1 billion people worldwide in twenty-first Century.

WHO is currently actively promoting the tobacco control framework convention and a package of tobacco control measures known as MPOWER.

This exhibition is supported by Bloomberg charitable fund, world lung health foundation, tobacco free youth campaign, International Federation of tuberculosis and lung diseases, foundation of the Centers for Disease Control and prevention, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of public health, and Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.

The exhibition will last until June 5th.