- Help people who are trying to quit smoking.
What If You Smoke?
- Never smoke around children.
- Children are especially sensitive to the dangers of secondhand smoke.
- If you smoke, try to smoke only in an open area away from your family.
- Many of the substances stay in the air even after the cigarette, cigar, or pipe is gone.
What Can You Do to Protect Yourself and Your Family Outside of Your Home?
- Let family, friends and people you work with know that you do care if they smoke around you.
- In your car, do not smoke or allow others to smoke while the windows are rolled up.
- In restaurants and bars, ask to sit in the non-smoking area.
- Make sure your child’s day-care, school and after-school programs are smoke-free.
- Ask your employer to make sure you do not have to breathe other people’s smoke at work.
Quit for yourself and loved ones … call your local American Lung Association at 1-800-LUNG-USA (1-800-586-4872) to find out more about how to stop smoking for good. The Lung Association is offering a new way to stop smoking through its Freedom From Smoking® online smoking cessation clinic. The program is based on the Lung Association’s Freedom From Smoking® program, which has already helped thousands of smokers quit smoking for good. The Freedom From Smoking® online smoking cessation clinic can be accessed day or night, seven days a week, on any schedule a smoker chooses.
Visit ffsonline.org and stop smoking today! This is the most important step you can take to protect yourself and your family from the dangers of secondhand smoke.
Sources:
The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: Children are Hurt by Secondhand Smoke. A Report of the Surgeon General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2006.
California Environmental Protection Agency. Health Effects of Exposure to ETS. June 2005.
U.S, Department of Agriculture. Tobacco Outlook. Economic Research Service, April 2005.
