PEOPLE from Bolton are being invited to help make Greater Manchester the first place in the world to make smoking history within a decade.

A roadshow is being held tomorrow in Deansgate, Bolton, from 10am to 2pm, offering stop smoking support and to give their views about the Make Smoking History plan for a range of local actions including extending smokefree places and licensing tobacco retailers.

Nearly one in five people still smoke in Bolton, and the town’s two biggest killers, cardiovascular disease and cancer, are both closely linked to smoking.

Sarah Price, director of population health and the Greater Manchester health and social care partnership said: “While the numbers of young people taking up smoking has reduced drastically over the past ten years, we still have too many smoking and starting to smoke.

"We plan to deliver a tobacco-free generation with our communities.Smoking is everyone’s business. The harm from tobacco addiction affects our whole society, from the pain and suffering of individuals and their families to the preventable costs to the economy and public services.”

The History Makers survey will also ask people to voice their opinion on whether tobacco companies should pay a ‘polluter levy’ for the devastation that their addictive products cause to individuals, families and communities.