Useful Links
The British Heart Foundation in Wales is leading the battle against heart and circulatory disease – the UK's biggest killer. The Charity is a major funder and authority in cardiovascular research. It plays an important role in funding education, both of the public and of health professionals, and in providing life-saving cardiac equipment and support for re-habilitation and patient care.
PO Box 50
Cardiff
CF11 1DX
Tel: 02920 382368
eMail: wales@bhf.org.uk
Cancer Research UK is the world's leading independent organisation dedicated to cancer research. Although its activities are dominated by bio-medical research, it also runs a tobacco control and education programme
10 Cambridge Terrace
London
NW1 4JL
Tel: 020 7009 8689
Diabetes UK Cymru It is known that around 118,000 people in Wales have been diagnosed with diabetes, and tens of thousands of others may have the condition without yet knowing it. Diabetes UK first opened its national office in Wales in 1996. Its aims are to provide a comprehensive bilingual service for people interested in diabetes, to make diabetes a priority at a political level and to lobby for the improvement of the quality of diabetes services in Wales.
Diabetes UK Cymru
Argyle House
Castlebridge
Cowbridge Road East
Cardiff
CF11 9AB
Tel: 029 2066 8276
Fax: 029 2066 8329
eMail: wales@diabetes.org.uk
The Dental Postgraduate Section of the School of Postgraduate Medical and Dental Studies, Cardiff University, supports trained dental personnel who provide in practice training on offering smoking cessation advice in Primary Dental Care Practice and Clinics. Dental Practitioners and their team are well placed to offer cessation advice to their patients.
They are able to explain the effect of smoking on teeth and oral tissues. Whilst many patients know about the risk of oral cancer and staining of teeth, it is not always recognised by the public that gum disease is a common outcome of smoking, and this can lead to premature tooth loss.
University Dental School and Hospital
Academic Avenue
Heath Park
Cardiff
CF14 4XY
Tel: 02920 744314
eMail: thomashs@cardiff.ac.uk
The Welsh Assenbly Government website provides useful information about the smoking ban in Wales, how it will affect you and the businesses and celebrities who are already supporting a smoke free Wales. Smoking is the greatest preventable cause of illness, disability and premature death in Wales. It is estimated that there are some 6,000 smoking-related deaths in Wales each year. This website sets out the Assembly Government's strategies for helping and encouraging smokers to quit and non-smokers not to start.
Wasted! The Trading Standards service has the responsibility for legislative tobacco control including controls on tobacco advertising, pack warning statements, location of cigarette vending machines, and under age sales issues. As well as law enforcement the service uses preventative education with retailers and young people as a means of tackling illegal access to tobacco. One such tool has been developed within Caerphilly County Borough Council to raise the awareness of the legal, health and social impacts of substance misuse among young people. WASTED! is an interactive ICT based teaching/training resource for use in school and youth settings. The resource covers tobacco, alcohol and volatile substance misuse and has been designed to fit into the PSE curriculum. The resource is available free of charge for use in Wales.
Kathryn Peters
Senior Trading Standards Officer
Caerphilly County Borough
Tel: 01495 235025
eMail: peterk@caerphilly.gov.uk
Wales Centre for Health are a statutory body established under the Health (Wales) Act 2003 and we have a broad remit for working with other organisations to help improve health in Wales
Wales Centre for Health
14 Cathedral Road
Cardiff
CF11 9LJ
Tel: 02920 22 7744
eMail: wch@wch.wales.nhs.uk
ASSIST is a peer-led intervention health promotion programme designed to reduce the prevalence of smoking. Research has shown that smoking among young people is a group activity.
The ASSIST programme aims to reduce smoking amongst young people aged 12-13 by training influential students to disseminate new norms of behaviour through their established social networks. Funded by the Welsh Assembly Government, ASSIST will be rolled out in 50 schools per year based on levels of deprivation. Results of the original trial showed an 18.3% reduction in smoking behaviour confirming that this type of intervention is particularly effective.
Sally Good
Tel: 01352 803611
No Smoking Day is organised by a charity of the same name run by four full time staff. Based in London, the charity is funded by a coalition of governmental and voluntary sector organisations with an interest in health.
NSD aims to help people who want to stop smoking by creating a supportive environment for them, and by highlighting the many sources of help available to people who want to quit.
No Smoking Day
59 Redchurch Street
London
E2 7DJ
Tel: 020 7739 5110
email: enquiries@nosmokingday.org.uk
Asthma UK
Summit House
70 Wilson Street
London
EC2A 2DB
Tel: 020 7786 4900
eMail: info@asthma.org.uk