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Organisations across Wales who have reduced tobacco use or helped people to quit have been recognised and rewarded with a Tobacco Control Excellence Award for Wales.

The awards, new for 2011, recognised and celebrated the achievements being made by creative and innovative initiatives in the areas of tobacco prevention and cessation and showcasing the best examples of excellence in tobacco control throughout Wales.

One example of the initiatives taken out by the winners were Millbank Primary school who increased the education with regards to tobacco and smoking within Year 10 of the school. Another example is cancer charity Tenovus who took their mobile unit and health checks to two areas in South Wales where adult smoking rates and lung cancer incidence was high.

The winners were awarded prizes from GASP, No Smoking Day and Bedfont and were divided into five categories by Organisation:

NHS including health boards:
Winner: Cardiff and Vale University Health Board’s Secondary Care Smoking Cessation Service
Highly Commended: Cardiff and University Health Board

Statutory and local authority:
Winner: City and County of Swansea Environment department
Highly Commended: Stop Smoking Wales and Communities First

Organisations working with and for young people, including youth led groups and schools:
Winners: Millbank primary School ‘In my back yard group’ - Save the children; Abertillery Comprehensive School, Abertillery and Cwm Tillery Communities 1st and the Hearty Lives Blaenau Gwent Project

Voluntary Sector:
Winner: Tenovus Highly Commended: 3Gs Development Trust, Merthyr Tydfil

Academic and research:
Winner: Bangor University
Highly Commended: Cardiff Institute of Society and Health