‘We WILL end tobacco harm’: Manchester History Makers’ defiant no smoking campaign reaches The Arndale Centre
A UK-first walk-through smoke screen is at the Manchester Arndale to help ‘Make Smoking History’.
Manchester LGBT Foundation host meeting to ‘bring smoking out of the closet’
Manchester’s LGBT Foundation is teaming up with leading health professionals working in tobacco control in a bid to ‘bring smoking out of the closet’.
Manchester teens call for plain cigarette packaging as 18k take up smoking a year
Manchester teens are doing their bit to stub out smoking amongst their peers after Action on Smoking on Health (ASH) figures revealed 18,000 young people take up cigarettes each year in the region.
Busted by Buster! Dogs sniff out Oldham’s biggest ever haul of illegal tobacco
Two canine crime fighters have sniffed out Oldham’s biggest ever seizure of illegal or counterfeit tobacco.
No fire without smoke: Smoking in the home kills, warn Manchester firefighters
The city’s fire and prevention teams have been going door to door and have delivered 4,000 leaflets to homes in a bid to encourage people to quit the cigs
Smoke without fire: Just how safe are e-cigarettes?
E-cigarettes could reduce smoking-related deaths by 50,000 – despite a recent report calling for their regulation.
Packaging sells, smoking kills: Wigan children join Andy Burnham to call for ban on ‘glitzy’ cigarette packets
School children in Wigan are urging the Government to implement a law that will protect them from glitzy and enticing cigarette packs.
Up in smoke: Rochdale pair see £3.2m bootleg cigarette haul BURNED for National Grid
Two Castleton, Rochdale, pirate tobacco barons are behind bars over a plot to smuggle £3.2million worth of bootlegged cigarettes into Britain – hidden inside crates of fruit.
Fight (to)bacc: Salford teenager rallies against ‘glitzy’ smoking packaging ads to help save young lives
A Salford teenager has called on the Government to bring in standardised tobacco packaging in a bid to save young lives from going up in smoke.
Dance troupe ‘drop dead’ in Piccadilly Gardens to remind smokers that tobacco kills one in two
The performance coincides with the Universal Health Conference which takes place at Manchester Central this week
Stubbed out: Jail for two Manchester men guilty of £94,000 smuggled tabacco tax fraud
Pair were caught moving tobacco between vans
