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My name is Jac Harries, and I volunteered for The Filter Wales for a week because I wanted to experience what it is like to work in a professional environment and do real life graphic design work for a company. I thought this would be a great experience while also help improve my work skills.Read more

Cut Films winners 2013Cut films is a national competition where you create a two minute video about smoking. Share it with your friends to be in with a chance of wining an iPad, voucher and more. Bad Decision Now Or Later? Fag Ninja When You Smokin’ Would You Like Fries With That?Read more

Watch your butts… don’t worry, we haven’t turned all american on you – the butts we’re talking about are the yellow, stubby tips at the end of cigarettes. Those plastic fibrous little things, aka butts, are on the ends of cigarettes to stop bits of tobacco getting sucked into the mouth and to lessen theRead more

The Oscars come and go in a whirlwind of flashing lights, sequin dresses, dapper suits and a-list celebs as far as the eye can see. The newspapers and internet pore over every detail of the night – which designer was she wearing? Who was that lady on his arm? Whether we like it or not,Read more

Back in March we decided to run a campaign about women who smoke through pregnancy. It’s a really difficult issue because it’s obviously really bad for the baby, but how helpful is giving a pregnant woman a lecture? We were doing an interview with a midwife who specialises in substance misuse. She introduced us to two womenRead more

The launch of The Filter has come and gone faster than we could have envisaged and it was better and bigger than we could have imagined! We had some great press coverage on radio, TV and especially online following the event from the likes of BBC Wales, ITV Wales and Real Radio to name a few. We hadRead more