Oral health and Scotland’s Charter for Tobacco-free Generation Reply

ASH Scotland’s Charlotte McDonough writes for us about an exciting piece of work she undertook during her time as an intern with us.

Buying tobacco for young people is not doing them a favour Reply

We are delighted that the Scottish Grocers’ Federation and the National Federation of Retail Newsagents are both supportive of our #notafavour campaign.

This campaign aims to reduce proxy purchase – where an adult buys tobacco and passes it on to someone too young to buy it themselves – by challenging the attitudes and assumptions that lead adults to do this.

The right to smoke, to buy an electric golf cart and to own a hostess trolley Reply

ASH Scotland Deputy Chief Executive, John Watson, takes a look at the idea of people’s right to smoke.

Scotland’s Charter chalks up a century! Reply

What if thousands of nurseries, schools, colleges, youth groups, family attractions, charities, sports clubs, restaurants, cafes, pubs, corner shops – you name it – all over Scotland made a conscious contribution to making Scotland tobacco-free?

Join campaigners, researchers and policy makers for a day of learning Reply

David Robertson, Partnerships Lead at ASH Scotland, writes about an exciting upcoming event which he is involved in organising.

Scotland’s pre-schoolers to celebrate their 21st birthdays free from tobacco Reply

ASH Scotland Development Officer Connie Bennett blogs about strategies for making Scotland tobacco-free for the next generation.

Scotland’s nursery schools and early years establishments will be well versed in the principles of GIRFEC, helping to keep children safe, healthy, respected and nurtured. They might be less well acquainted with Creating a Tobacco-free Generation – the Scottish Government’s Tobacco Control Strategy.

Youth work works: contributing to a tobacco-free generation by 2034 Reply

Much of the story of young people and tobacco is well known.

We are all too aware that the younger a person starts to smoke, the more likely they are to continue smoking into adulthood, the more heavily they are likely to smoke as an adult and the more likely they are to fall ill and die early as a result of smoking.

National youth basketball programme makes tobacco-free pledge Reply

Shell Twilight Basketball were the first sports organisation to endorse Scotland’s Charter for a Tobacco-Free Generation. Sarah Furniss, Youth Development Coordinator at Shell Twilight Basketball talks to us about what they are doing to help the next generation grow-up free from tobacco.

Tobacco-free Generation. Online tobacco prevention information and resources for youth workers Reply

Tobacco-free Generation is a web resource page designed to provide youth groups and youth workers with the information, resources and support that they need to develop and deliver well-informed and effective tobacco prevention activities with the young people that they support.

Grampian secondary school leads the way to a Tobacco-free Generation Reply

ASH Scotland is calling for the next Scottish Government to abide by the principles of Scotland’s Charter for a Tobacco-free Generation; to help the next generation grow up free from tobacco. Many organisations have already signed up to the Charter and have pledged to play their role in creating a tobacco-free generation. Staff and pupils at Bucksburn Academy campus were proud to endorse Scotland’s Charter for a Tobacco-free Generation – the first school in Grampian to do so.