PRESS RELEASE
Friday 8thMarch 2019
OUTDOOR SHOPPING CENTRE GOES SMOKE FREE
A Gateshead-based shopping centre is leading the way in the North East and beyond by becoming the first outdoor shopping centre to be smoke free.
Trinity Square is using this year’s National No Smoking Day (Wednesday 13thMarch 2019) to launch its smoke free status and discourage both smoking and vaping on its site. It is also helping shoppers and visitors find the support they need to help them quit during an event on the same day.
Tony Pickering, Centre Manager, said: “We are proud to be taking this positive action and making Trinity Square a smoke free zone. It is part of our overall commitment to improve our impact on the environment in 2019.
“We appreciate that it could be seen as controversial to ban both smoking and vaping as vaping is seen as a healthier alternative to cigarettes. However, we are a family friendly shopping and leisure centre and as such we care about the health and wellbeing of all of our shoppers, visitors and employees. The harm from smoking tobacco and from second hand smoke is well known but as more research is needed into the safety of e-cigarettes, we did not want to discriminate between smoking or vaping.
“We have several businesses at Trinity Square that can help people cut down and quit smoking, so we feel well-placed to implement this policy but also to provide the support which might be needed within the centre.”
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Sharron Ashurst, Marketing Manager, Trinity Square on 07775 801471
NOTES TO EDITORS:
You are cordially invited to send a reporter and or camera to Trinity Square on Wednesday 13thMarch 2019 to record the event and conduct interviews. Please make arrangements using the above contact details.