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.