Welcome to Fresh
Welcome to the website of Fresh, Smoke Free North East. Here you will find details of our work together with other key local, regional and national activity designed to reduce smoking levels and help the 70 per cent of smokers who would like to quit.
 
Let’s Make Smoking History for our children
Thanks to the Government’s consultation on a new National Tobacco Strategy we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to help make smoking history for our children. Twelve months on from the introduction of the smokefree law, it couldn’t have come at a better time.
 
Smoking remains the North East’s biggest killer with 5,500 dying from smoking-related illness every year – that’s more than alcohol, HIV, drugs, suicides and accidents put together.
 
Every year in England the tobacco industry has to recruit 200,000 new smokers to replace the 100,000 who quit and the 100,000 who die. The vast majority of those new smokers will be young people.
 
The region has over 10,000 smokers between the ages of 11 and 15. If they continue to smoke throughout their lives, half will die because of their addiction.
 
The Government wants your view on a number of measures which will make smoking less attractive and which will help people to quit. Measures such as:
-         removing cigarette vending machines
-          putting tobacco products out of sight in shops
-          banning packs of 10
-          only allowing tobacco products to be sold in plain packaging
 
How can you have your say?
Well, if you want to help make smoking history for the children of the North East, we've made it easy for you.

Let the Government know that you support a tobacco-free future for our children by completing and sending off the form below.

E-response to the government consultation on Tobacco Control

Let's make smoking history for our children

Protect our children from the effects of smoking. The earlier they start the more likely it is to kill them.

Let the government know that you support a tobacco free future for our children. Simply complete the form below and send it off. It's that easy.

Together we can make a difference.

Dear Mr Johnson,
I would like to voice my support for the proposals in the Department of Health's consultation document on the future of tobacco control.
I support a long-term plan which protects our children and future generations from the harm that smoking causes.
I support measures to remove tobacco out of the sight and reach of children, including ending all displays of tobacco products at the point of sale and ending the sale of tobacco products from vending machines.
I support measures to protect our children from tobacco marketing, including the introduction of plain packaging for all tobacco products.
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I do not wish to receive any further updates from Smoke Free North East.

To find out more go to the consultation section on this website.

 

There is still much more work to be done though and details of this are given in the Fresh Business Plan for 2008/9. 

New Smoking Prevalence in the North East published - click here to access.