International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking is observed on June 26 to commemorate w...........

International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking is observed on June 26 to commemorate which of the following events?

Establishment of UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Lin Zexu’s dismantling of opium trade in Guangdong

End of First Opium War

None of the above

Explanation:

Second option is correct.

The International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking is observed every year on June 26 across the world to raise awareness of major problem that illicit drugs. The date was chosen to commemorate Lin Zexu’s (Chinese scholar and official of the Qing dynasty) dismantling of the opium trade in Humen, Guangdong, just before the First Opium War in China (1839–42).