‘No Smoking Day 2010 takes place on Wednesday 10 March and is the 27th annual campaign and awareness raising events will be going on in West Dunbartonshire’s Secondary Schools with Information Points being set up to provide information to pupils on the adverse affects of smoking and to signpost them to services that are available to help them stop.
The events will be taking place no smoking day itself at Dumbarton Academy and St Peter The Apostle on Thursday11th of March and Clydebank High on Friday 12 of March..
Convenor for Education, May Smillie says, “This is a real team effort with officers from Y Sort-It Youth Information and Support Network, West Dunbartonshire Council’s Regulatory Services and Community Learning and Development Youth Services Team and the West Dunbartonshire Community Health Partnership's Smokefree Services are all involved in the campaign.
Each year, nearly one million smokers quit on the Day and this year the event hopes to encourage women who smoke to break free from the chains of their addiction and take control of their health and retain their good looks.”
With one in 12 females in the UK kicked the habit on No Smoking Day in 2009, that's an impressive 366,000 women who took the first step to a healthier life.
No Smoking Day is hoping that the remaining 4 million female smokers in the UK will also be inspired to quit in 2010.
