Support Scotland’s campaign to stop young people being given tobacco or vapes.

Most young people who smoke or vape get their cigarettes and vapes from friends, family and other people they know. Often this is thought of as “doing them a favour.”

 The #notafavour campaign sets out to challenge the attitudes and assumptions that lie behind giving harmful products to children. We are doing this because:

• we want to protect children and young people from harmful products
• to reduce purchases of tobacco and vapes for under 18s

 Under the #notafavour banner, this campaign clearly sets out that buying tobacco or vapes for young people is helping them into addiction, ill health and money worries.

 We have created a set of materials promoting the #notafavour message. Can you help us to get these materials and messages out to those members of the public who need to see them?

Most people would not give these products to children, not because of the threat of a fine but because they know it’s just wrong. Yet surveys of young people show that this is the most common way that they get hold of cigarettes and vapes.

We need to reach that minority of people who do pass on cigarettes and vapes onto those who are too young to buy for themselves.

With the source usually being people they know, we have the chance to highlight how giving tobacco and vapes to young people is not doing them a favour – it is doing serious harm to friends, family and people you know and care about.

This campaign is part of a wider effort for Scotland to become “tobacco-free” by 2034 – meaning a situation where the only people who smoke are the small number of informed adults who actively choose to do so.

What you can do.

Think about opportunities you have to get the #notafavour message out to the public, particularly any groups you think might be involved in giving tobacco or vapes to kids.

What channels are available to you – schools and colleges, youth groups, shops, GP surgeries, community noticeboards, websites or social media, local newspapers, stencils at busy junctions or bus stops – whatever chances you have in your community.

Access free resources, from posters and postcards to email footers and web buttons, to download

Tweet with hashtag #notafavour and get our campaign Twibbon to help spread the word.

Contact us to tell us you want to support the campaign, to order printed posters to put in your workplace, etc, and postcards to have available to give out.

Find out more about Scotland’s Charter for a Tobacco-free Generation, and have your organisation join those having signed it.

Free resources

Download our free resources. If emailing us to request printed copies then please quote the code given for each product.

Contact us.

If you have any questions on the campaign, or would like to request some of our stock of printed materials, please contact ASH Scotland.