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Anti-smoking
campaign wins young people
There were lots
of smiling faces today when young people from all over Northern
Ireland were presented with some great prizes as part of the
Health Promotion Agency’s anti-smoking
campaign. The Agency featured a variety of competitions
in the magazine, Up2You,
which was distributed throughout schools in Northern Ireland
as part of an anti-smoking public information campaign launched
earlier this year.
Rob Phipps, Tobacco
Programme Manager for the Health Promotion Agency said: "We
know from research that the campaign was viewed positively
by teenagers and we were pleased that the response to the
competitions was so high.
We are delighted
to have the opportunity to talk to these young people and
to once again highlight the dangers of this addictive, harmful
and costly habit. "The tobacco industry has to recruit new
smokers each year therefore we and others working in health
promotion must continue to make sure that young people are
getting the right messages in the right way at the right time
about smoking."
This campaign
forms part of the ongoing work to support Smoking
kills, the Government’s White Paper
on Tobacco.
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