What we are doing
Action towards a smokefree Bristol.
What is the smokefree Bristol action plan?
The action plan covers five years and has three main stages.
1 The City Council and the Health Service put their houses in order - with smoking policies on all their sites and for all their workers who work off-site.
2 The business and voluntary sector follow suit. Working in partnership we encourage smokefree policies that protect their workers from second-hand smoke. We also work with the hospitality trade to extend smokefree provision.
3 We work on increasing awareness of the health damage to children from smoking in the home, and we support and encourage parents and others in protecting clean air for children.
Throughout these stages we will work with the media to explain the benefits of clean air and the progress we are making.
Stages 1 and 2 have been completed, we are now concentrating on reducing smoking in the home.
Who is behind the smoke-free Bristol Action plan?
The plan has been adopted by
- The Bristol Partnership.
This is a collaboration between many different local agencies and authorities.
It was developed by
- The Department of Health
- Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
- Tobacco control workers
Members of the Bristol Partnership signed the smoke-free Bristol Charter on January 17th 2005. Working groups have been set up to help progress the action plan, focusing on:
- Smoking in the workplace
- Research and evaluation
- Public Services
- Communities
- Communications
Smoke-Free Bristol Charter
The Smoke-Free Bristol Charter was signed in January 2005 by Alison Frater, Director of Public Health, and Peter Hammond, then Chair of the Bristol Partnership.
Read the Smoke-free Bristol Charter