I regularly walk up the pedestrian footpath parallel to the Tesco filling station and outside the Tesco staff entrance with my young children. The children complain about the smoke that they inhale as they walk past the Tesco employee smokers on the corner, where the delivery lorries pass. There has recently been a lot of press coverage of ‘second hand’
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Smokefree South West is to stage a stop smoking exhibition at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre on Tuesday 26th October 2010, from 9am to 5pm. The event will showcase the free support available to smokers in the area to help them kick the habit for good. Lindsay Thomas, Head of NHS South Gloucestershire’s Stop Smoking Service, said: “We helped over
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Local MP Jack Lopresti has voted in favour of allowing people to smoke in pubs again – but the bid to overturn the ban was defeated. Wednesday night’s motion, put forward by Tory MP David Nuttall, was lost by 141 votes to 86. Read more: Bristol Evening Post
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Smokers looking to kick the habit in 2010 will be able to get advice from NHS South Gloucestershire’s Stop Smoking Team this week in Bradley Stoke. The team will be at the Willow Brook Shopping Centre on Friday 8th January. Justin Boult, Stop Smoking Adviser at NHS South Gloucestershire, said: “If your New Years resolution is to give up smoking
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