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• Smoke-Free Homes and Cars
• Smoke-Free Child Care Centers
• Smoke-Free Workplaces

Protect your children from secondhand smoke by choosing not to smoke in your home. Do not allow family and visitors to smoke either!

Secondhand smoke causes serious respiratory problems in children, including:

• More frequent and severe asthma attacks
• Increased lower respiratory tract infections, such as bronchitis and pneumonia
• More middle ear infections
• Higher risk for low birth weight babies
• Increased risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

Visit our Secondhand Smoke web page to learn more.

Here are a few simple things to make your home smoke-free:

• Declare your home smoke-free
• Choose not to smoke in your home and car. Do not allow family and visitors to smoke either. Infants and toddlers are especially vulnerable to the health risks from secondhand smoke.
• Do not allow child care providers or others who work in your home to smoke.
• Until you can quit, choose to smoke outside. Moving to another room or opening a window is not enough to protect your children.
• Learn about the benefits of a smoke-free home.

If family members want to quit, be patient and supportive. For help quitting smoking call the Nevada Tobacco Users' Helpline, University of Nevada School of Medicine at 1-800 QUIT NOW.

Print your Declaration today

Benefits of a Smoke-Free Home

The greatest benefit, of course, is that you will remove all the health risks associated with secondhand tobacco smoke.

Plus:

• When your home is smoke-free, it will smell much better.
• Your food will taste better.
• You'll spend less time, energy, and money cleaning your curtains, walls, windows and mirrors.
• You won't have to worry about potential burns on your favorite furniture or carpet.
• Your insurance rates may be lower — check with your insurance company.
• Even your pets will be happier. For example, secondhand smoke increases the risk of cancer in pets. For more information about smoking and pets download the Secondhand Smoke and Pets PDF (97 KB/1 page) from the American Lung Association.

For more information on the benefits of a smoke-free home visit the Protecting Kids from Secondhand Smoke web site.

Smoke-Free Child Care Centers

Secondhand smoke exposure causes serious respiratory problems in children; increasing the number and severity of asthma attacks and causing lower respiratory tract infections. It also increases the risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and middle ear infections for children.

If you are a child care provider, learning to recognize, reduce or eliminate potential asthma triggers in your center could make a huge difference in the life of a child with asthma and other respiratory conditions. Download the Asthma & Common Triggers PDF (103KB/2 pages) fact sheet to learn more.

The passage of the Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act requires all child care facilities with five or more children to be smoke-free. If you are a child care provider with less than five children, consider the following tips for making your child care facility smoke-free:

• Do not allow child care providers or others who work in your home to smoke.
• Have a formal written smoking policy for your center or home. Make copies available to everyone. View a sample policy. PDF (68 KB/1 page)
• Visit our Quit Smoking web page for resources to help your employees who smoke and want to quit. If employees want to quit, be supportive. Quitting smoking is a hard job, and they will need a lot of support.

For help quitting smoking call the Nevada Tobacco Users' Helpline, University of Nevada School of Medicine at 1-800 QUIT NOW.

Declare your child care center a smoke-free zone!

Smoke-Free Workplaces

As more and more scientific evidence is mounting about the dangers of secondhand smoke, workplaces nationwide are going smoke-free to provide clean indoor air and protect employees and customers from the harmful, life-threatening effects of secondhand smoke.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), involuntary exposure to secondhand smoke remains a common, serious public health hazard that is entirely preventable by adopting and enforcing appropriate regulatory policies.

Smoke-free environments are the most effective method for reducing secondhand smoke exposure and decreasing business costs.

For more information on implementing a voluntary smoke-free policy in your workplace that isn't covered by the Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act, download a Guide to a Smoke-free Workplace. A Spanish version: Guía de Capacitación Para el Desarrollo de Empresas Libres de Humo de Tabaco is also available to download. PDF (307 KB/12 pages)

Related Links

Visit our Related Links web page to learn more about smoke-free environments.

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