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Smoking
Prevention
Information
updated April 2007
Gina
Perigo
Smoking Prevention and Young People
Email: gina.perigo@liverpoolpct.nhs.uk
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Smoking
Prevention
Smoking is the leading cause of avoidable ill health and early
death.
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In
the UK, 42% of children are exposed to secondhand smoke
in the home.
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More
than 80% of smokers take up the habit as teenagers and around
450 British children start smoking every day.
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In
Liverpool, smoking kills around 1,000 people each year and
almost
100 of those people have never smoked.
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Smoking
cost the NHS in Liverpool approximately £12.7 million
on treating smoking related illness and diseases
each year.
The
cost of smoking on the nation’s
health is great and prevention is key to reducing
this burden, along with support from the Stop
Smoking service.
Smoking
Prevention Initiatives include:
Reducing
Children's Exposure to Secondhand Smoke
The SmokeFree Merseyside Secondhand Smoke and Children Campaign
aims to protect children who are regularly exposed to tobacco
smoke. In partnership with local sure start programme, a pilot
protects was conducted to highlight the dangers of secondhand
smoke particularly to children under 5. This was underpinned
by two main objectives:
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To
increase public knowledge and awareness of the dangers of
secondhand smoke via an extensive media campaign.
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To
change reduce secondhand smoke within the home environment
through brief intervention by various health professional
and community workers.
Acting on
the knowledge accrued from the awareness raising campaign,
the underpinning training programme and the qualitative
research;
a pack Reducing Children’s Exposure to Secondhand
Smoke which includes a Train the Trainer element, has been
further
developed, and piloted, to help support, and increase the
number of brief interventions.
For a copy of the SmokeFree Merseyside Passive Smoking and
Children Campaign Report 2004 and the Passive Smoking Qualitative
Research
in Merseyside Summary Report 2005, go to the downloads
page.
D-MYST:
Direct Movement by the Youth Smokefree
Team
D-MYST is youth movement run by and for young people in Liverpool.
The group aims to de-normalise and de-glamorise smoking amongst
their peers through education, advocating smokefree work environments
for everyone and speak out against and challenge the ways in
which tobacco is marketed at young people through product placement,
particularly in the media. For more information visit www.d-myst.info
Smokefree
Liverpool Campaign
SmokeFree Liverpool is campaigning for 100% restrictions on smoking in the workplace
to protect all employees form the detrimental health effects of secondhand smoke.
For more information and to register your support visit www.smokefreeliverpool.com
National
Clean Air Award
National Clean Air Award is presented to local businesses that implement smokefree
policies for their workforce and provides them with guidance to help them get
their policy right. For more information visit www.cleanairaward.org.uk
Useful
Links
Ash - Action on Smoking and Health: www.ash.org.uk
Smoke Free North West: www.nwph.net/smokefree
Smokefree
Action: www.smokefreeaction.org.uk
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