A MOTHER from Aston Fields who lost her father to lung cancer, is backing a national campaign to get all branding removed from the outside of tobacco packaging. 28-year-old Jo Spalding is urging people to support Cancer Research UK’s ‘The Answer is Plain’ campaign, which is calling for people to sign a petition asking for cigarettes to be sold in plain packaging. Mrs Spalding was a smoker until four years ago, only giving up after her father Alan, was passed away at the age of 55 suffering from lymphoma.
He’d been a smoker all his life and after his death it was discovered that the tumour had been a secondary cancer, with a primary cancer being in his lungs. Mrs Spalding, said: “He only lived for four weeks after diagnosis, rapidly deteriorating and needing care from his wife, which was extremely difficult as he was an incredibly private man. He passed away after a two day stay in hospital as he needed permanent oxygen.” Mrs Spalding’s entire family gave up smoking after her father’s death, and now she’s determined that her one-year-old daughter will never pick up the habit.
The government recently launched a consultation on whether to put all tobacco in packs of uniform size, shape and design, with large health warnings front and back. She added: “I’ve seen how driven by branding all children are in the clothes and shoes they want to wear. And I’ve experienced it first-hand with cigarette packaging. When I see cigarettes and my old familiar brand’s packaging, I do often think about buying them and how it might feel to have one. “I would never want anybody to have to go through what my dad went through. And after seeing what smoking did to her grandfather, I hope my daughter Imogen will never take up this terrible addiction.”
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