We've teamed up with Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership for a campaign to help people stop smoking on 11 March for #NoSmokingDay and we’ve got a great cash prize for today’s winner!
We’re looking for scribbles, designs, sketches, notes and impactful headlines to get this serious message across.
Prize:
The overall winner will receive a £100 cash prize!
Remember to tweet your ideas to @OneMinuteBriefs and @HistoryMakersGM with the hashtag #NoSmokingDay
Make sure you include your Twitter handle in the corner of your entries too!
About:
Smoking rates in Greater Manchester have fallen significantly over the years which is incredibly positive. However, smoking is still the biggest avoidable cause of deaths. In Greater Manchester alone 4,500 adults will die each this year from smoking related causes.
Smoking is also estimated to cost the Greater Manchester economy up to £785m pounds a year in healthcare costs and lost productivity. Meanwhile, the tobacco industry makes more money than Coca Cola, Disney, Google, McDonalds and FedEx put together!!
Our research is showing that smokers are increasingly unaffected by ‘traditional’ stop-smoking campaigns focusing on the serious health harms, but also that supportive and inspirational messaging on its own is not enough. Help us find the right balance to make smoking history in Greater Manchester and beyond.
Although the YOU CAN! stop smoking campaign runs specifically across Greater Manchester, it’s more about the people than it is the place – this is all about the no smoking message first and foremost!’
Find out more at youcangm.org
Twitter: @HistoryMakersGM | Facebook @MakingSmokingHistoryGM | #NoSmokingDay
Previous examples of banners and posters below:
