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CoCo SMOKING EDUCATION

Comic Company works with health agencies and some of the UK's finest comic artists to create smoking prevention and cessation resources in print and online.

For printed resources, see below.

For online resources, view our interactive showcase.

And take a look at some of our free downloads.

Many of our resources, printed or online, can easily be adapted for new uses, or customised with your organisation's address, logo and phone number etc. Contact us to discuss possibilities.


• SMOKEFREE ZONE posters

• SMOKEFREE 2003 CALENDAR pyramid deskcards

4 new SMOKEFREE ZONE posters and a SMOKEFREE 2003 calendar cards to promote CLEAN AIR

• SKY BLUE SQUARES signal "no smoking" in a REALLY POSITIVE way

• A-Z FOR A SMOKEFREE WORLD poster

• UP IN SMOKE poster

• WANT TO QUIT poster


Previously in 2002


TARGITS – THE TARGITS GET PREGNANT booklet




Click this link to view TarGits as an animated comic

• Highly readable comic strip story featuring Fran and Phil King, and their baby Nosmo. Follow the family from the night of Nosmo’s conception to a year or so later when they give up smoking for good.

• FUNNY and very endearing

• ENGAGES all young parents-to-be – especially those reluctant to read anti-smoking literature

• lively COMMENTARY gives the facts behind the story.

(34pp x A6, full colour, landscape)


TARGITS: CAN YOU FEEL HIM KICK? poster

"Can you feel him kick?"

"No – but I think I heard him cough."

If you're having a baby, or even if you're just thinking about it, it's a good idea to give up smoking. It's better for your health, your partner's health, and your baby's health.

(A3)


Click here, or on the image, to view


SMOKEFREE SNAPPER

• Based on the highly successful
GIVE ME 5 FRUIT & VEG SNAPPER

• brilliant full colour folded-paper quiz

• fun smoking-awareness activity

• emphasises positive smokefree messages –

FRESH AIR, BREATHE EASY, STAY HEALTHY

(A4)


I QUIT! HOW TO LEAVE SMOKING BEHIND YOU booklet

I QUIT!



Click to visit www.iquitonline.com

• Positive, practical guide for teenagers on how to stop smoking

• produced with the active involvement of health promotion

• departments in Dudley, Sheffield, Staffordshire and Southwark

• evaluated with young people

• fill-in diary and questionnaires about smoking habits

• cartoons and strips to help young people cope with quitting and craving

(16pp x A6, full colour, landscape)

Click here, or on the image, to view the entire booklet.

A detailed evaluation of I QUIT! (May 2000) is available here (html).

Or download an Acrobat pdf version here.

You will need Acrobat Reader to use this document. Download it free by clicking on this link


THE NIGHT BEFORE / THE DAY YOU STOP postcard

• Handy postcard on preparing to stop smoking

• a popular back-up to using the I QUIT! booklet


SPOT THE DIFFERENCE… poster

• Novel smoking education poster

• promotes the benefits of a smokefree world in a fun interactive puzzle

• adults and children alike love comparing the Before-and-After scenes

• can be used in almost any setting, from classrooms to waiting rooms

(A3)

Click here or on on the posters to see larger versions

As seen in Syria, in Arabic:


THE CRAZY WORLD OF TOBACCO poster

Features tobacco and cigarette production in the developing world, the chemical contents of tobacco smoke, and concerns of non-smokers. Teenagers are the target age-group, but the resource has also proved valuable with adults.

New updated editions appeared in 2001 and 2002.

Crazy World has also become very popular outside the UK, particularly in the USA and the Caribbbean. A version recently appeared in Nepalese.

Click here or on on the poster to see a larger version

(A2, full colour)


INSIDE STORY poster-magazine

Vividly shows not only the major health hazards of smoking on the body, such as cancer and heart disease, but also many less well-known effects like early baldness and period problems.

Five and a Half Minutes describes what happens to the body while a cigarette burns down, and a cautionary ballad and Burning Questions tackle some real-life smoking dilemmas.

Designed for teens, in youth clubs and schools, but also useful for adults in smoking cessation groups.

(8pp x A4, full colour)

“I think that it is brilliant. My favourite part is the Ballad of Charlie Grey. It gets the message through brilliantly. It’s ace !” girl, London

A Welsh edition, Stori fewnol, was created for Health Promotion Wales.




THANK YOU FOR NOT SMOKING bookmarks

Appealing bookmarks featuring animal-frieze. The reverse shows the animals with blank boards for children to pesonalise and add their own message.

(gloss card, 52mm x 300mm, full colour)

I'D RATHER poster

The ever-popular I'd Rather poster was created for the Ulster Cancer Foundation and the Health Promotion Agency for Northern Ireland.

The Foundation ran a competition for young people 9-11 to say what they would rather do than smoke a cigarette. Their answers were quite a surprise – such as bathe in baked beans or marry Frankenstein!

9 winners had their ideas drawn up by artist Woodrow Phoenix. (A2 full colour).

A GREAT FAVOURITE!

Click here or on on the poster to see a larger version