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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

Read the Smokefree Action Coalitions' priorities for a comprehensive strategy: The ten pillars of a national plan

Our Objective
Our Mission
Our case put simply
Member Organisations

 

 

 

 

 

Our Objective

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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Our Mission

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.

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Our case put simply

The 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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Member Organisations

ASH
Ash (N.Ireland)
Ash Scotland
Ash Wales
Asthma UK
Bath & NE Somerset PCT
Berkshire East PCT
Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust
Bristol PCT
British Dental Association
British Dental Health Foundation
British Heart Foundation
British Lung Foundation
British Medical Association
British Thoracic Society
British Vascular Foundation
Bury PCT (NW ASH)
Cambridgeshire Community Services/Cambridgeshire PCT
Cancer Research UK
Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT
Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
CHIEF (Community Health Involvement & Empowerment Forum)
City and Hackney Primary Care Trust
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Stop Smoking Service
County Durham PCT
Darlington PCT
Devon PCT
Diabetes UK
Faculty of Public Health
Fresh NE
GASP
Gloucestershire PCT

Great Yarmouth and Waveney PCT
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

National Youth Agency
Newcastle City Council
NHS Bristol
Northamptonshire Teaching PC
North East Essex PCT
North Somerset PCT
Northumberland Care Trust
No Smoking Day
Nottingham City PCT
Pharmacy Health Link
Plymouth PCT
QUIT
Roy Castle Lung Foundation
Royal College of Midwives
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 London Lambeth (website currently under construction - please check back soon)
Smokefree Norfolk Alliance
Smokefree Northwest
Smokefree Plymouth
Smokefree Solihull
Smokefree Wakefield
Smokefree Warkwickshire
Smokefree Wiltshire
Smokefree Wirral
Socialist Health Association
Somerset PCT
South Bedfordshire District Council
South Gloucestershire PCT
South Gloucestershire Tobacco Alliance Network
South Tyneside PCT
Stoke PCT
Swindon Borough Council
Swindon PCT
Ulster Cancer Foundation
Warwickshire PCT
West Midlands TCCC
Wirral Council
Tobacco Control Collaborating Centre

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