1980 – 2010 30th Anniversary of GASP

GASP was founded in 1980 and has evolved from a pressure group campaigning for smokefree public places to the current day one-stop-shop of over 400 smoking education and tobacco control resources. GASP supplies products to you, our valued customers in the UK and worldwide and we always welcome your feedback about any products or customer service.

To mark GASP’s 30th anniversary in 2010, we are taking a celebratory theme of Smokefree Fairs and Fun events for everyone. All the ideas are brought together in an illustrated book called ‘Smokefree Fairs – Fun and Games with a Smokefree Theme’. Everything from Tobacco Free Tombola to No Smokie Karaoke, Gypsy Rose Smokefree to Smokefree Paper Planes, Ciggie Skittles to skits about ciggies. It features seasonal ideas and things to make such as a ciggie piñata and guess the number of ciggie butts in a jar.

GASP is offering lots of fun games to buy off the peg including Hook the Smokefree Ducks, Splat the Fag, Smokefree Hoopla, Stick the NO on the Smoker and Give Tobacco the Sack Race. The latter consists of 5 hessian sacks with reasons to quit printed large on them. One card game ‘Effects of Smoking Pairs’ is proving very popular. A set of 40 cards with 20 pairs each showing illustrations to represent different impacts of smoking.

For the challenge of encouraging and supporting smokers to stop, GASP has produced a book ’10 Tips for Engaging Smokers in Public Places’. It is packed with tips and true stories of stop smoking interventions where health staff and project workers have taken to the highways and byways of Britain to meet with smokers and persuade them to stop smoking. One of the tips is to ‘maximise your Smokerlyzer’. The Breath CO monitor is the essential tool on any stop smoking stall and to help with this GASP has published an updated CO leaflet and CO chart to motivate and inform smokers. A popular pregnancy leaflet called ‘Pregnant? There’s No Better Time to Stop Smoking’ has also been updated and redesigned. One new leaflet, ‘What happens to Your Body When you Stop Smoking?’ Informs recent ex-smokers through the good parts and the not so good parts of quitting to help them to know what to expect. Another new leaflet ‘Frightening Facts about Smoking’ gives over 50 scary stats for smokers and non-smokers to highlight just how frightening smoking is. It lists diseases, death rates, and eco damage both in the UK and worldwide.

For displays, a pack of 6 ‘Tobacco Toxins Hazard Signs’ printed onto light foamex board would enliven any display about the toxins in tobacco smoke. GASP has also just published ‘Poisons in Cigarette Smoke’, a new poster. For young women there are two new posters. One is an updated version of ‘Nice Face Shame about the Kiss; Kissing a Smoker is Like Licking and Ashtray’. The other ‘So She Said …’ highlights the soliloquy of a smoker who cannot believe her friend has stopped smoking and is now reaping the benefits.

The popular bookmarks provide smokers with a condensed overview of the chosen topic. Joining the nine bookmarks already on offer are 4 new ones: Stop Before Your Op, Coping with Stress without a Cigarette, Smoking Kills Your Looks and Pets and Passive Smoking.

The calm the tensions of ex-smokers, GASP is offering fantastic value head and body massagers.

Finally for the health educators and stop smoking advisors GASP is offering a new book ‘Supporting Smoking Cessation’ and 2 new powerful PowerPoints called ‘The ABCs of Smoking’ and Effects and Hazards of Smoking with graphic photos.

As always there are great offers and prices to be had from items in the Special Offers section of the website.

All GASP products including special offers can be bought and ordered online 24/7 at our website www.gasp.org.uk

Thank you for buying from GASP and for helping to promote a smokefree future. There has been great progress in combating the toll from tobacco since GASP published its first leaflet ‘Passive Smoking: the Facts’ in 1980. But we still need commitment and resolve to challenge the addictive power of nicotine and the political and economic influence of the tobacco companies in the UK and worldwide.