To consider a report of the Director of Public Health.

The Director of Public Health presented a report which sought endorsement of the Local Government Declaration on Tobacco Control. The report highlighted the facts that smoking was the single greatest cause of premature death and disease in Trafford, the single largest factor in health inequalities and a major driver of poverty. It stated that the move of public health to local government presented an opportunity for local authorities to lead local action to tackle smoking and to ensure that the tobacco industry was not able to influence local tobacco control policy. Members had a long debate regarding smoking and the degrees of success in relation to cessation campaigns and work being undertaken with children and young people, and there was a general consensus that there needed to be more innovative ways to deter people from  smoking.

                        RESOLVED:

(1)                          That the Health and Wellbeing Board approve the report.

(2)                          The Health and Wellbeing Board endorse the Local Government Declaration on Tobacco Control as set out in Appendix 1 of the report.

(3)                          That the Director of Public Health be requested to co-ordinate all information and interventions regarding cessation campaigns, including work with schools, and report back to a future meeting of the Board.

(4)                          Noted that the Director of Public Health would be attending an event in London to mark the Council becoming a signatory to the Local Government Declaration on Tobacco Control.