Smoke Free Homes
Protect your family from tobacco smoke!
'Smoke Free Homes - Smoke Free Zones'
The benefits to your family begin the minute you make your home smoke free!
- 4000 tobacco chemicals no longer polluting the air
- Your children are healthier; breathing in smoke
- Risk of health problems reduced
- House is cleaner; no more dropped ash or cigarette burns
- Your children’s eyes and noses no longer irritated by tobacco smoke
- Children less likely to develop asthma.
- Asthmatics have better control of their disease
- Family’s pets healthier and happier; living longer breathing in clean air
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 and in the house.
Tobacco smoke contains 4,000 chemicals. These chemicals are in poisonous gases and dust like particles too small for the eye to see.When you breathe in these gases and particles they get into every cell in your body. This is called second hand smoke. It can cause health problems. When tobacco smoke disappears into the air, you can easily forget about the gases and particles. But they…
- Quickly spread to other rooms in the house, even if a window is open
- Stick to clothes,walls, furniture and carpets
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 Smoke Free Homes/Smoke Free Zones Promise, you will receive ‘No Smoking’ signs for your home.
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.
Make a Smoke Free Home Promise. If you require information on how YOU can make a Smoke Free Home Promise, contact Charlotte on 01706 864255