A guide for local decision makers, to provide local authorities with the information they need to allow them to push for all workplaces and enclosed public places in their areas to become smoke free.This guide is intended to help local decision makers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and particularly Councillors and Council Officers, to frame tobacco control policies for their areas within existing legislation.

The toolkit contains the latest expert advice on key issues including the law relating to secondhand tobacco pollution and the case for making use of the control measures currently available, as well as examples of action already being taken by local authorities throughout England and Wales.

We (CIEH and ASH) have been particularly pleased to include material from the Irish Republic, and we take this opportunity to congratulate them on the clear and comprehensive measures they have taken, which by all reports have been both effective and well received.

Index

Part 1

You will have to go to this page (click) to get to the link for each title below. They are all in Adobe Acrobat.

• Joint introduction and Purpose Statement (87kb)

• Acknowledgements (67kb)

1. Smoking: why your council should act (394kb)

2. Health risks from environmental tobacco smoke – legal opinion (91kb)

3. Guide to smoking and local authority powers and functions (650kb)

4. Working towards a smoke free community: a template for local action (94kb)

5. Smokefree Charter (41kb)

6. Working towards a smoke free community: targeting business (136kb)

7. Implementing a workplace smoking policy (51kb)

8. Workplace smoking policy template (55kb)

9. Smoking in restaurants (76kb)

10. The ventilation argument (58kb)

11. Passive smoking: ASH Fact Sheet No. 8 (65kb)

Part 2

A. Working Strategically

A1. Strategies and action plans

a. Key actions to take the smoke free Liverpool agenda forward (168kb)

b. Kent Alliance Tobacco Control Strategy (204kb)

c. Torbay Alliance suggested actions (75kb)

d. Shropshire examples of activity (56kb)

A2. Public attitude surveys

a. City of Sunderland smoking at work survey (285kb)

b. Northamptonshire consumer survey (50kb)

c. Smokefree environments: lies, damned lies and statistics (1.9Mb - PowerPoint file)

B. Developing workplace policies

B1. Benefits and financial implications

a. Smoke free at work Ireland website: benefits of a smoke free workplace (452kb)

b. Smoke free Liverpool: business facts (50kb)

B2. Policy development

a. Derbyshire workplace smoking pack (418kb)

b. Torbay smoking policy (113kb)

c. Liverpool Health atWork: producing a policy (126kb)

d. Smoke free at work Ireland website: policy development doc (96kb)

e. Norfolk 5 steps (717kb)

f. Staffordshire venues toolkit (253kb)

B3. Employee attitudes

a. ASH questionnaire (56kb)

b. Norfolk questionnaire (526kb)

B4. Restaurants, pubs and clubs

a. Staffordshire customer opinion card (2.37Mb)

b. Corby pub activity ideas (50kb)

c. Humber Alliance customer opinion card (343kb)

C. Supporting policy implementation

C1. Leaflets

a. Staffordshire fresh air, fresh business (484kb)

b. Norfolk going smoke free: making good business better leaflet (71kb)

c. Sunderland smoke free guide (398kb)

d. Conwy smoke free register (1.40Mb)

e. Smoke free herts web based eating guide (182kb)

f. Northamptonshire: big smoke debate A4 (79kb)

g. Liverpool: working towards a smoke free Liverpool leaflet (154kb)

h. Humber Alliance customer card (190kb)

C2. Signing

a. Swansea beer mats (53kb)

b. Swansea no smoking poster premises (111kb)

c. Swansea no smoking poster restaurant (111kb)

d. Northamptonshire smoke free community (1.20Mb)

e. Smoke free Herts A4 Now You Have a Choice (885kb)

f. Norfolk folder artwork (749kb)

g. Northamptonshire folder artwork (165kb)

C3. National Clean Air Award Scheme (339kb)

-- Sources of contents included in the toolkit (33kb)

-- Sources for further information and materials (57kb)