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Key Messages For Everyone

Key Messages For Everyone Smoking is the single most important cause of ill health and premature death in Grampian The risk of developing smoking related illnesses increases with how long someone has smoked These risks fall substantially if smoking is stopped, even for long term smokers

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Key Messages For Everyone

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  1. Key Messages For Everyone • Smoking is the single most important cause of ill health and premature death in Grampian • The risk of developing smoking related illnesses increases with how long someone has smoked • These risks fall substantially if smoking is stopped, even for long term smokers • We aspire to make the choice not to smoke, the easy choice • We aspire to create smoke free environments for the population across Grampian For the Individual • Stopping smoking is the single most important action you can take to improve your health • Lots of people decide to stop smoking by themselves and then make a plan. If you feel that you need more help, you can get this from your local pharmacy or a specialist advisor by calling 0500 600 332 • Take responsibility for reducing harm to others: • Don’t smoke where you expose others to harmful smoke – especially children • Don’t expose children to any smoking behaviour For Professionals • The Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act came into force on 26 March 2006, banning smoking in enclosed public places such as workplaces, pubs and restaurants. • In Oct 2007, the minimum age of sale for tobacco was increased from 16 to 18 in both Scotland and England & Wales, and it also became illegal for under 18s to purchase cigarettes. • Raising the issue of smoking and referring to smoking cessation support will help the people you work with to live better and longer lives. We can help to build your confidence and skills to do this with a short training course. Phone 0500 600 332 We all need to work together Tobacco Fact Sheet January 2013 NHS Grampian Public Health: Tobacco Control Team

  2. Key Information For the Board and Community Planning Partners • Improving health by reducing smoking will require all the lead agencies and partners work together as an effective alliance • No single tobacco control intervention is effective in isolation, smoking is reduced when a raft of measures is consistently, universally and sustainably applied to a whole population. • A binding international treaty (WHO, 2003) obliges the UK and Scottish Governments to reduce smoking through evidence-based actions to ensure : • Protection from exposure to tobacco smoke • Regulation of the contents of tobacco products • Regulation of tobacco product disclosures • Packaging and labelling of tobacco products • Education, communication, training and public awareness • Tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship • Demand reduction measures concerning tobacco dependence and cessation • Illicit trade in tobacco products • Sales to and by minors • Provision of support through economically viable alternative activities These obligations are the basis of the legislation and social policy that guide and frame the responsibilities of the Board and its community planning partners. In Grampian, smoking remains the single biggest preventable cause of illness and early death. A small reduction in the number of people smoking can make a big difference. In Scotland productivity losses due to excess absenteeism, smoking breaks and lost output due to premature death cost £692 million, nearly £70 million in Grampian.

  3. The good news - Compared to 10 years ago, in Grampian…. • Fewer children smoke and more children have never smoked (SALSUS 2002-2010) • In pregnant women, fewer than ever report they smoke and the gap between the most and least deprived has narrowed Fewer adults smoke. Key Information

  4. Smoking cessation services in Grampian have delivered the national target for successful quitting at 4 weeks in the general population and in areas of deprivation. Key Information

  5. However…. There are differences in smoking patterns in different parts of Grampian More people smoke in Moray, and the prevalence is increasing. More pregnant women smoke in Moray. And…. • Heavy smoking is still 4 times more common in the most deprived communities • Children from families where there is smoking are more likely to smoke and to have a life long addiction to tobacco. • Sustaining attempts to quit smoking is difficult in the long term – cessation is part of the solution but avoiding ever starting smoking is really important in the long term. The reduction in smoking is excellent but there are still more than 1000 avoidable deaths in Grampian every year. Key Information

  6. The Grampian Tobacco Strategy and Action Plan identified key measures for success for on going efforts to reduce smoking. The table below lists the indicators, frequency with which data will be available for monitoring and the source. ScotPHO are currently preparing a dataset for a common local tobacco profile and we hope to report this here in the summer of 2013.

  7. Notes on data limitations and caveats: • Results quoted from the Scottish Household Survey for local authority areas are based on a sample size of approximately 1000 residents (Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire) or 500 residents (Moray), which limits the accuracy of the estimated percentage smokers to +/-3% or worse. Unfortunately this is large compared to hoped for improvements in the smoking rate, and adds uncertainty to the inferred smoking incidence. Consequently rates may tend to fluctuate considerably, but over a prolonged period lower rates should emerge. The Scottish smoking rate is based on a sample size of the order of 28000 and should be accurate to within a fraction of 1%, resulting in much steadier estimates. • Smoking figures from the Scottish Health Survey for Grampian are based on a sample size of about 1000 residents per annum, which again limits the accuracy to about +/-3%. • Maternal smoking rates for Grampian are based to samples of in excess of 6000 births for annum, which should give fairly robust results, although relatively few of these will be in the deprived quintile as Grampian is an affluent area. Contact details: Derek Petrie - Tobacco Control Coordinator, NHS Grampian, Summerfield House, Eday Road, Aberdeen derekpetrie@nhs.net Date of next update: April 2013 Prepared with support from NHS Grampian Health Intelligence and Health Care Teams.

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