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Smoking Links

ASH - Action on Smoking and Health

www.newash.org.uk

ASH is a campaigning public health charity working for a comprehensive societal response to tobacco aimed at achieving a sharp reduction and eventual elimination of the health problems caused by tobacco. 120,000 people per year die from smoking-related diseases in the UK and tobacco is a major cause of illness and health inequalities. 

BHF - Cigarette Machine Ban Campaign

BHF - Cigarette Machine Ban Campaign

British Heart Foundation campaign. Statistics show that more than 1 in 6 children who are regular smokers usually buy their cigarettes from machines in England – this equates to a staggering 46,000 children regularly buying cigarettes in this way in England and Wales. To make it harder for children to get hold of cigarettes, we want to see parliamentary legislation which will ban the sale through vending machines. 

BHF - Smoking and heart disease

BHF - Smoking and heart disease

British Heart Foundation site regarding offering information, support and resources. 

BHF site for teenagers

BHF site for teenagers

British Heart Foundation site for teenagers with events, facts and information, and competitions. 

British Heart Foundation - games

British Heart Foundation - games

 

Cancer Research - Children and Smoking

Cancer Research - Children and Smoking

Cancer research website, Children and smoking 

Cancer research - quiz

Cancer research - quiz

Smoke is poison and smoking: fact or fiction quiz. 

Cancer Research - Smoke is Poison

Cancer Research - Smoke is Poison

Cigarette smoke is a toxic cocktail of 69 cancer-causing chemicals and hundreds of other poisons. 

Cancer Research - Smoking and Tobacco

Cancer Research - Smoking and Tobacco

Cancer research smoking and tobacco website, giving information from what cancers are caused by smoking. 

Cancer research - Teenagers site

Cancer research - Teenagers site

Information, competition and games on cancer and science for students and teachers 

Frank - drugs information

www.talktofrank.com

Government funded site giving information on drugs and the consequnces of getting involved with them. 

Go Smoke Free

www.gosmokefree.co.uk

Site produced by the National Health Service - online resource for advice, information and support to help you stop smoking. 

Mouth Cancer Website

www.mouthcancer.org

Mouth cancer is one of the cancers you can get as a smoker, read on the find out the symptoms. Sub-website of the British Dental Health foundation. 

No Smoking Day

www.nosmokingday.org.uk

No Smoking Day charity website offering information, support and resources. 

QUIT

www.quit.org.uk

QUIT is the independent charity whose aim is to save lives by helping smokers to stop.