History Makers is a collaboration between Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, Salford Community and Voluntary Services (Salford CVS) and Voluntary Sector North West (VSNW).
We aim to become the first city region in Europe to make smoking history. To do this we need to reduce smoking prevalence at a pace and scale greater than anywhere has done before.
The impact smoking has on smokers and their families is devastating. In Greater Manchester alone 4,500 adults will die each year from smoking related causes, and nearly 5,700 children in Greater Manchester start smoking every year.
Meanwhile, the tobacco industry makes more money than Coca Cola, Disney, Google, McDonalds and FedEx put together, profiting from sales of a product that kills 1 in 2 long-term users.
Making smoking history will improve the health, wealth and wellbeing of the 2.8 million people who live and work in Greater Manchester.
Amazing things have happened so far. Smoking prevalence in Greater Manchester continues to decline and is at an all-time low, with just 16% of the adult population smokers.
We also have more smokefree spaces popping up and smokefree events being organised, and many people are signing up to become History Makers.
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