Eileen Crofton

Lady Eileen Crofton MBE (28 March 1919 – 8 October 2010) was a British physician and author.

She attended North London Collegiate School and Somerville College in Oxford.

[1] Crofton's campaigns were worldwide and focused on increasing regulations for tobacco and educating people on the harm that smoking can cause.

During her campaign work, Crofton attended an international medical conference at Royaumont, a former Cistercian abbey in France, where she found a plaque commemorating a Scottish women's hospital which operated out of the Abbey during the First World War.

It is awarded to young people who work to reduce the harm caused by tobacco and smoking.