Protect your Family from Tobacco Smoke
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- Smoking restrictions in your home will encourage your children to stay nonsmokers.If you smoke when your children are around, they can inhale the equivalent of 150 cigarettes a year.
- 50 children are admitted to hospital every day in the UK because of tobacco smoke in the home.
- Smoking is one of the main causes of fires in the home.
- Approximately 140 deaths and 1800 injuries occur each year as a result of fires caused by smoking.
- Smoking is harmful to pregnant women and their unborn baby.
What can I do if other people want to carry on smoking anywhere in the house?
Discuss how important it is to protect your family from second hand smoke. Try to find one of the Promises you can all agree to.
What can I do?
The home is the biggest source of tobacco smoke. The best thing you can do is ban or restrict smoking in your home. By doing this you will immediately reduce the risk to your family of the following:
What health problems can second hand smoke cause?
Second hand smoke can cause cancer and heart disease in adults. But it’s babies, children and young people who are most sensitive to tobacco smoke. Their lungs are not fully developed, and their immune system is less resistant to the infections caused by passive smoking.
When someone smokes, is it harmful to others near them?
Smoke curling up from the end of a cigarette is harmful to everyone in the room as well as in the house. Tobacco smoke contains 4,000 chemicals. These chemicals are in poisonous gases and dust-like particles which are too small for the eye to see.
Will I upset visitors, especially close friends and relatives, if I ask them not to smoke in my house?
Explain to them that tobacco smoke is harmful, especially to your children. Good friends and loving relatives will understand. When you sign up for the Lincolnshire Smoke-Free Homes/Smoke-Free Zones Promise, you will receive ‘No Smoking’ signs for your home.
