Smokefree 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.
In the UK about 11,400 non-smokers die in the UK every year from illnesses caused by breathing in other family members' smoke. Illnesses caused in their own homes.
In some areas of Bristol, over half of households have a smoker who regularly smokes indoors.
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
- The English weather.