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MORE THAN HALF OF ALL SMOKERS UNDERESTIMATE THE HEALTH AND FINANCIAL IMPACTS OF SMOKING
Campaign launched to help smokers quit this New Year
As millions of New Year’s resolutions are made, new NHS Smokefree research1 reveals that many smokers in Manchester are largely underestimating how damaging smoking is to their personal health and finances.
Download a copy of the press release here.
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Manchester councillors join fight to tackle tobacco harm to save the city over £175.7million a year.
At a recent conference, councillors pledged to work locally and collaboratively towards a tobacco free future, by making smoking history for children.
The conference was attended by Public Health Minister Anne Milton and leading local authority figures and discussions focused on how they can tackle tobacco in our local communities.
From April 2013 local authorities will be wholly responsible for public health and tackling tobacco will be a key priority. Smoking costs communities hugely, not only in terms of health impacts and costs to the NHS, but also in terms of fires, litter, lost days at work and productivity. A tool that has been developed to calculate the impacts estimates that the cost to Manchester is £175.7million. This cost broken down can be found at:
www.ash.org.uk/localtoolkit/R2-NW.html. |
Photo: Councillor Pat Karney signs pleadge. |
The government’s Healthy Lives, Healthy People: a tobacco control plan for England sets out clearly the need for a comprehensive approach to tackling tobacco. A range of measures have already been implemented or are being considered. These include:
- Cigarette vending machines legislation to stop easy access for young people (implemented 1st October)
- Point of sale displays legislation which comes in next Spring
- A commitment to consulting on plain packaging for tobacco products
- Preventing the promotion of tobacco though entertainment media
For more information contact Vicky Mills, Communications Manager, Tobacco Free Futures on: 0161 238 6385 or
email: vicky.mills@tobaccofreefutures.org.
Download a copy of the press release here.
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| Wythenshawe’s Healthy Smokefree Families Are Heroes in Health |
| Wythenshawe’s Healthy Smokefree Families Project Team recently won the coveted Heroes in Health NHS Manchester’s Award for Improving Health for an innovative initiative, which has helped over 1,000 homes in Wythenshawe to become smokefree.
The team won the award for its work with local families, which included an innovative ‘chemical soup’ - where parents were asked to think about the chemicals in cigarettes, and whether they would make soup out of them and leave it bubbling on a stove while children played nearby.
The initiative drove home 3 simple messages – step outside to smoke, protect children from tobacco smoke, and keep homes and cars completely smokefree. Parents have been spreading the word and encouraging their friends and family to sign up to the highly successful Manchester’s Smokefree Homes Scheme. |
Photo: Awards Ceremony from left to right: Evelyn Asante-Mensah MBE, Chair NHS Manchester – Jenny Cowell, Communications Officer, Public Health Development Service – Chris Bell, Community Engagement Worker – Deirdre Lewis, Head of Centre/Children’s Service Manager, Barnardos – Abbie Paton, Acting Manager, Manchester Stop Smoking Service and Laura Roberts, Chief Executive, NHS Manchester. |
To register you home smokefree and to be in with a chance to win £250 home vouchers click here. For more information call 0161 205 5998.
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| Jenny Cowell Wins Top North West Communication Award |
Jenny Cowell, Communications Officer for the PHDS recently won a communications award from Smokefree North West.
The award was presented for Jenny’s work on communications in Manchester Stop Smoking Service. It marked the 10 Year Anniversary of Stop Smoking Services in region.
Jenny said:
“I am really honoured to receive the award, it is a real surprise. I’ve never smoked myself, but I really enjoy the challenge of using communications to raise awareness of the benefits of stopping smoking, to encourage people to quit smoking themselves and to protect children and young people from second hand smoke.” |
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Stop Smoking Champions Rewarded
DEDICATED MANCHESTER STOP SMOKING CHAMPIONS ARE REWARDED FOR YEARS OF HARD WORK
Three Manchester NHS Stop Smoking champions who have helped save the lives of hundreds of smokers by encouraging them to quit have been commended at a North West awards ceremony.
Councillor Pat Karney, Jenny Cowell and Jane Sunter all won awards from Smokefree North West at City Inn, Manchester, to mark the 10 Year Anniversary of Stop Smoking Services in the region. Since their launch in 1999, North West Stop Smoking Services have collectively helped 371,693 people quit smoking.
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