/ TO FIND OUT MORE OR JOIN A GROUP:

Anti Tobacco Groups in your area

ATYC – Throughout the NW
http://atyc.roycastle.org/
Tel: 0151 254 7230

D-MYST – Liverpool
http://www.d-myst.info/index.php
0151 707 1555

Cumbria Youth Alliance – Cumbria
http://www.cya.org.uk/
Terry Lampitt on: 01229 870150

STAMP – Salford
Call Cassie Wilson on: 0161 603 6833

/ You and the Tobacco Industry

The Global Perspective

• Growing tobacco uses a lot of land. It has been estimated that if food crops were grown instead of tobacco this land could feed between 10 and 20 million people
• In 2002, the Chief Executive Officer of Phillip Morris, one of the world’s biggest tobacco companies made $3.2 million in salary and bonuses
• It would take a tobacco farmer in Brazil, 2,140 years to earn what a tobacco company director earns in one year
• A 1994 study reported that about 43 percent of tobacco estates in Malawi employ children directly
• In 2007 the combined revenues of the three leading tobacco companies (PMI, BAT and JT) was $147 billion

Smoking and the Media

• Studies show that smoking in movies misleads young people into thinking that tobacco use is normal, acceptable, socially beneficial and more common than it is
• The current rate of smoking scenes in Hollywood films has returned to the high levels of the 1950s, after reaching its lowest levels in 1980

Smoking Facts

• Tobacco consumption is responsible for killing around 5.4 million smokers worldwide every year. That is approximately the number of people who live in the whole of the North West
• In the UK alone more than 100,000 people die per year from tobacco related deaths. That’s the equivalent to losing the whole population of Blackburn in one year
• Under-16-year-olds now spend about £135 million every year on cigarettes
• Someone who starts smoking at 15 is three times more likely to die from cancer due to smoking than someone who starts smoking in their mid-20’s
• In Great Britain about 450 children and young people start smoking every day

The Law

• Since the 1st October 2007 it became illegal to sell tobacco to anyone under the age of 18. The law includes cigarettes, cigars, tobacco for roll your own and pipes, and also rolling papers
• The Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2002 prohibits the advertising and promotion of tobacco products in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, including sponsorship