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Smokefree Homes

In the UK about 10,700 non-smoking adults die in the UK every year from illnesses caused by breathing in other family members' smoke1. Illnesses caused in their own homes.

Having a smokefree home is an easy way to improve your health and the health of those around you. It may even save lives.

Stepping outside to smoke solves the problem. But if it were that easy everyone would do it immediately. There can be lots of barriers:

  • Reaching for a cigarette and forgetting to go outside
  • Convincing family and friends who don't agree with a smokefree home
  • Living in upper-floor flats with no easy access to a garden or yard
  • The Welsh weather

1. Jamrozik,K  Estimate of deaths among adults in the United Kingdom attributable to passive smoking.  BMJ 2005, published online 1 March 2005. Read abstract.

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Statistic Snippet UK

About 12 million adults in the UK smoke cigarettes – 26% of men and 23% of women. In 1974, 51% of men and 41% of women smoked cigarettes – nearly half the adult population of the UK. Now just over one-quarter smoke, but the decline in recent years has been heavily concentrated in older age groups: i.e., almost as many young people are taking up smoking but more established smokers are quitting.

Fact:

A child starts smoking In the UK every 4 minutes. Every eight seconds, someone in the world dies due to tobacco. About 106,000 people in the UK die each year due to smoking. Smoking-related deaths are mainly due to cancers, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and heart disease.

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