Hey Everyone! Today we launched our new campaign Play SmokeFree in Liverpool City Centre. We had a pop up play area that we used to promote the campaign by letting children play. The campaign asks people not to smoke in children's play areas as children copy what they see grown-ups do. The campaign will also reduce cigarette litter that young children pick up. It was freezing in Liverpool but we kept warm by running around talking to the public about Play SmokeFree! Listen our for our jinge that we recorded ourselves on Radio City this week!

Hey Everyone!

Great meeting today! We are very busy arranging the launch of our new campaign that you will find out about in early December! We have spent the day working out the exact details of our launch in Liverpool City Centre so look out for us in a few weeks!

On Tuesday we will be recording our very own radio jingle to promote our campaign so you will also be hearing us on the radio!

All will be revealed soon....

Hi everyone Matty and Prince here,

Today's meeting went great, we have been organising and planning our radio jingle, whch is helping to promote our new campaign, we have also been shooting a film for a national conference in York taking place in November.

Thats all for now, we will be updating soon.




 

Hey Everyone!

 

We would firstly like to welcome our new members Lilly, Khadijah and Prince! It is great to get new members and have their new ideas! Today we pitched to the Strategic Lead for Public Health from Liverpool Primary Care Trust and the SmokeFree Liverpool Coordinator. We are hoping to run a new campaign in the next couple of months and we presented our ideas and proposal in the boardroom to our guests. We each had a section to present and then we had a question and answers session. We will hear feedback in the next few days and hopefully our ideas will be chosen! It was quite nerve-wracking as a pitch is a bit like a job interview but we think we did well!

 

Watch this space!

After a bit if a break over the summer we had a D-MYST meeting today and there is plenty to do! Over the summer we held our Smoking Celebs Facebook competition and we received lots of really good and funny entries - the winner will be announced on our Facebook page next week.

We welcomed two new members to D-MYST The Agency today, Lilly and Khadijah! It is great to have new members as they bring with them new ideas!

We were given a brief today for a new campaign that will be launched in Liverpool over the next few months. We have spent our meeting brain-storming ideas and putting together a proposal to show how we think the campaign should be run. We are inviting people to our next meeting so that we can present back to them and hopefully they will like our ideas as much as we do. If they do we will then start work!

We are still collecting postcards for our SmokeOff campaign to show the support for removing smoking images our of pre-watershed television programmes and we are working on a plan to get ourselves back in the papers!

Draw a celeb competition

Hey Everyone!

Firstly a big thank you to everyone that visited the D-MYST stand at St John's Shopping Centre on Friday! We had quite a busy stand!

Today D-MYST The Agency launched a summer competition giving people the chance to win a pair of tickets to Alton Towers! There are three pairs of tickets up for grabs and all that people have to do is go onto the D-MYST The Agency's Facebook page, 'like' the page and then post a picture of a smoking celebrity look very unglamourous. There are already some funny pictures that have been posted! We will be running the competition until the 31st August and then we will choose three winners.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/D-Myst-The-Agency/277889122260617

Happy drawing!

The effect packing has on young people.

Since joining D-MYST, it has opened my eyes to the tactics which tobacco companies deploy in order to sell their products to young people.

Tobacco companies deny that they are encouraging young people to smoke, and many people will say that the way in which tobacco companies market their products has little effect, but this couldn't be further from the truth, which is shown by the screenshot above taken by a D-MYST member. Plain packaging would definitely be a place to start in order to reduce smoking among young people.

Just finished our meeting today and we have a lot of activity planned for the summer in Liverpool! Look out for us and our stand at events across this city this summer and come and say hi to us!!!! We are hoping that you may be able to spot our logo in some unusual places too!

We've just got back after a successful fozen flash-mob in St Johns shopping centre. We all stood still for two minutes as shoppers walked by in astonishment, as if time had stood still. Look out in the papers this week for pictures of us, as well as updates on our Facebook wall and check out on Youtube for "frozen grand central" in order to get an idea of what we did

Hi it's Matty here,

We've had another good D-MYST meeting where we have discussed how we can get involved with the plain packaging consultation and have written a design brief for our design studio. We have decided our date for the flash mob to promote smokeoff, so watch out for that! We have also chosen some celebrities that we want to target to help us with our Smokeoff campaign
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We had the chance to appear on City Talk's Breakfast Show today, so Sam and Alex went along and gave a fantastic LIVE interview about the SmokeOff campaign, plain packaging and the ways in which the tobacco industry manipulates young people! The interview went so well it was even replayed later on in the show! This was a great opportunity to let people know about us and of course we got a trip up the Radio City tower!

Another good meeting today! We have a great plan in place for SmokeOff - look out for us in Liverpool City Centre on Thursday 7th June!
The plain packaging consulation started on Monday so we had a guest speaker come to our meeting today to explain a bit more about that. We are keen to get involved in this and are putting together our action plan!

We have spent a long day editing our film 'Because' and it is finally finished! We have entered this into the national Cut Films competition and are hoping to be in with a good chance of winning! Please visit www.cutfilms.org and vote for us!http://competition.cutfilms.org/Video/View/9e303319-437d-404d-882c-12968180edb9

Filming

Hi all it's Matty here,

We have entered the Cut Films competition and our
task is to make a short film on smoking. We finished all our filming today and
the scenes look great! We just need to put some finishing touches to them,
then we can send it off to the competion and wait to see if we win!
We have 5 different scenes in our film, they contain the consequences and
effects from smoking.

That's all for now but will update again soon!

We had a great time yesterday at the Tobacco Free Futures Smoke and Mirrors conference that was held at BBC Media City! Not only did we learn more about plain packaging, we got to speak to other young people about the tobacco industry and their marketing tactics as well as promoting our SmokeOff campaign. We were also interviewed by Granada Reports with Karolina's interview being shown last night, and BBC Radio Merseyside did a live interview with Mariam and Areej! Autographs are available upon request!

Hi its Kuzanga here and D-MYST have just finshed filming with Bay TV to promote the Smokeoff campaign!  WE gathered our TV cardboard boxes and marched down Rodney Street with the film crew. We have also decided to enter The Deborah Hutton Campaign film competition.We've put pen to paper and finalised our scripts.There are 5 different scenes that are going to take place and we've managed to narrow them down to about 10 seconds per scene.The meeting has been full of productivity and it was a day well spent.We are also looking forward to heading to BBC Media City on Wednesday for the Watching Me, Watching You conference!

hey guys,
mariam here I'm pleased to say that we have just finished another very successful meeting.
today we have been through many things. one particular thing that we are excited about is the media city event that will be held in Manchester on the15th February. we have been kindly ask to attend thus conference to discus smoking in media and entertainment and plain packaging for cigarettes hopefully seven of us will be attending this event wich hopefully will be amazing.we are entering a competition to make a short movie for the public to show them the effects of smoking.

we are still collecting online signatures for our smoke off campaign so please visit http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/26171
and add your signatures.

Campaign Update

The Smoke-Off campaign is going really well, we've had coverage in lots of the media including BBC Radio Merseyside, The Daily Post, The Echo, ASH Daily News and we're even looking to do a piece for the TV.
We've just finished another meeting outlining what we've done so far and what we're going to do next.
To show your support, like our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/D-Myst-The-Agency/277889122260617

If you weren't lucky enough to hear us on BBC Radio Merseyside on the day of the SmokeOff launch check out some more media coverage in today's Liverpool Echo or on the Liverpool Daily Post online!