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About Smokefree Action
The Smokefree Action Coalition is a group of organisations listed below committed to promoting public health. We came together initially to lobby for smokefree workplaces and are now committed to reducing the harm caused by tobacco more generally. You can click here to visit our previous website which contains details of the campaign for smokefree legislation
Our Objective Our Mission Our case put simply Member Organisations Join the Coalition as a supporting organisation Join the Coalition as an individual
To continue to reduce the harm from tobacco by ensuring that an effective, fully funded comprehensive tobacco control strategy remains a central element of government health policy.
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Smoking is still the major preventable cause of death and disease and inequalities in health, killing over 100,000 people across the UK each year. One in four adults still smoke, and children of smokers remain exposed to secondhand smoke. The Smokefree Action Coalition wants the UK Government to develop and implement an adequately funded comprehensive tobacco control strategy in order to keep driving down smoking rates and protect people from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke.
Back to topThe UK is a world leader in tobacco control policy yet tobacco continues to cause over 100,000 deaths per year. Smokers and non smokers, adults and children, all suffer from the burden of tobacco smoke. Some groups suffer more than others and the higher rates of smoking among lower socio economic groups increases health inequalities. It isn’t a simple matter of choice, it is hard for smokers to quit because nicotine is very addictive. There is much more that can be done to reduce the harm caused by smoking to smokers and those around them. The public are keen for further tobacco reform. The answer is not to introduce isolated policies, but rather to develop a systematic strategy across government departments including Health, Education, Business & Enterprise and Revenue & Customs.
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Ash (N.Ireland)
Ash Wales
Asthma UK
Bath & NE Somerset PCT
Berkshire East PCT
Bristol PCT
British Dental Association
British Heart Foundation
British Lung Foundation
British Medical Association
British Thoracic Society
British Vascular Foundation
Bury PCT (NW ASH)
Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
Cancer Research UK
Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT
CHIEF (Community Health Involvement & Empowerment Forum)
City and Hackney Primary Care Trust
Diabetes UK
Faculty of Public Health
Fresh NE
GASP
Halton & St Helens PCT
Heart of Mersey
Ingcat - The International Nongovernmental Coalition Against Tobacco
Lambeth PCT
Leeds PCT
Leicester City PCT
Manchester PCT
Men's Health Forum
Mouth Cancer Foundation
National Heart Forum
National NGO Forum
Newcastle City Council
Northamptonshire Teaching PCT
No Smoking Day
Nottingham City PCT
Pharmacy Health Link
Plymouth PCT
QUIT
Roy Castle Lung Foundation
Royal College of Nursing
Royal College of Physicians
Smokefree Alliance for Shropshire County and Telford & Wrekin
Smokefree Essex TCA
Smokefree Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Smokefree Lincs Alliance
Smokefree London
Smokefree Northwest
Smokefree Warkwickshire
Smokefree Wiltshire
Socialist Health Association
Somerset PCT
South Gloucestershire PCT
South Tyneside PCT
Stoke PCT
Swindon Borough Council
Warwickshire PCT
West Midlands TCCC
Tobacco Control Collaborating Centre
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Join Smokefree Action as a supporting organisation
To join the smokefree coalition as a supporting organisation please read the aims and objectives as stated in the mission statement above. If you agree with these and wish to sign up then please use the form below to send us your details.
If you have any problems you can manually send an email to webmaster@smokefreeaction.org.uk
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