HEALTH campaigners have told students to get knotted after they messed up their anti-smoking display.

Hospital chiefs commissioned Burnley College arts team to create a giant packet of cigarettes and box of matches to illustrate this year's No Smoking Day message "Put a Not in it" - featuring knotted fags.

But within hours of the display going on show at the college, students swooped and made off with two of the 4ft ciggies.

Health education workers glued the remaining giant cigarettes into the packet after all efforts to trace the missing weeds failed.

Now health staff are closing the college exhibition early and dragging the display off to the library where they feel their message will be better appreciated.

"It is a pity someone saw fit to do this and try to spoil the display," said health trust education officer Janet Walton.

"What they don't seem to realise is they are sabotaging their fellow students' work which is to be assessed as part of their course."

The exhibition was being closely guarded until it was moved to the library today. It goes on to the Thompson Centre for No Smoking Day itself, March 13.

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