Deborah Hutton anti-smoking campaign
Government “backtracking on public health” with no plain packs Bill in Queen’s Speech
The government was today accused of “backtracking on public health” by omitting a pledge to bring in plain packaging for cigarettes from last week’s Queen’s Speech.
Tobacco plain packaging out of Queen’s Speech but ‘has not been abandoned’
Not including measures aimed at discouraging people from smoking in today’s Queen’s Speech does not mean they have been abandoned, the health secretary has said.
Royal College doctors push for tobacco plain packaging law
Senior doctors have urged the government introduce plain packaging rules for tobacco products to “remove misconceptions that some brands are ‘safer’ than others”.
Cut Films anti-smoking competition entrants ask for your vote
The Deborah Hutton Campaign’s youth anti-tobacco film-making competition received 213 entries nationwide this year, smashing last year’s 76. Here some young Londoners talk about their films and why you should vote for them.
YouGov pollster criticises “highly imaginative” arguments against tobacco plain packaging
A prominent pollster has suggested the only argument made by opponents of plain packaging for tobacco products is that that the “industry doesn’t like it”.
“No-one can tell me to do anything” - anti-smoking film competition combats peer-pressure
Reporter Sebastian Mann visited Abbey Manor pupil referral unit in Lewisham to see what peer-to-peer film competition Cut Films is doing to change young people’s attitudes to smoking.
Tobacco products display ban helped smokers quit, poll finds
One in four young people who gave up smoking last year said the ban on displaying tobacco products in large shops helped them quit, a survey has found.
Anti-smoking film competition winner: “You inform other young people and you learn a lot yourself”
Last year’s winner of the Deborah Hutton Campaign’s Cut Films competition, Chloe Wilson, talks to London24 reporter Sebastian Mann about her film to put young people off smoking, sitting on this year’s judging panel, and why she kicked the habit.
Charlie Stebbings: Why I launched a youth anti-tobacco charity
Charlie Stebbings is the founder of the peer-to-peer smoking prevention charity, the Deborah Hutton Campaign. Three weeks ahead of the closing date for their Cut Films competition, he writes about how the charity came about.
No Smoking Day: ‘The time for plain packaging has come’
Charlie Stebbings launched peer-to-peer anti-smoking charity the Deborah Hutton Campaign following his wife’s death from lung cancer eight years ago. Here, on No Smoking Day, he takes on one of big tobacco’s last marketing tools - its packaging.
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