Your Healthy Home

"Keep your home free from tobacco smoke.

June is National Healthy Homes Month, the perfect time to make your home smokefree. Let visitors know that, for your family’s health, smoking is not allowed in your home. It’s not enough to open a window or turn on a fan to try to blow the smoke away. Even moving to a different room away from a smoker does not prevent you from being exposed to secondhand smoke. Keeping your home free from tobacco smoke helps keep you and your family healthy.

How Is Secondhand Smoke Harmful?

Exposure to secondhand smoke is harmful. In adult nonsmokers, it causes heart disease, lung cancer, and other diseases. It can also result in premature death. In fact, about 41,000 nonsmoking adults die from heart disease and lung cancer every year because of secondhand smoke.

Children who breathe in secondhand smoke are more likely to get sick, including respiratory and ear infections. In babies, secondhand smoke can cause sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Secondhand smoke kills more than 400 infants from SIDS each year.

About 58 million nonsmokers in the U.S. are still exposed to secondhand smoke, many of whom are exposed in their homes. Completely eliminating tobacco smoke indoors is the only way to fully protect those in your household from this preventable health risk.
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