World Tobacco Day, created in 1987 highlights the smoking epidemic each year on May 31. This annual celebration was created by member states of the World Health Organization to draw attention to tobacco use and the diseases it can cause. 💭Activists seen dressed in skeleton costumes while holding replicas of cigarettes on World No Tobacco Day in Kolkata, India. 💭Famous sand sculpture artist Sudarsan Pattnaik works on a display observing World No Tobacco Day at Puri beach in Odisha, India. 💭School children wear face masks as they take part in an awareness rally against the use of tobacco on World No Tobacco Day in Kolkata, India. 💭Children participate in a rally to mark World No Tobacco Day in Mumbai, India, 💭Medical staff arrange an art installation with 321 pairs of shoes that signifies the deaths caused by smoking, in observance of the World No Tobacco Day, at the Lung Center of the Philippines in Manila. 💭Children play near a sand sculpture that was made to create awareness against tobacco use on World No Tobacco Day at Elliot's Beach in Chennai, India. 📸: @gettyimages, @apnews