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From saving a
baby bird to
coaching a
soccer team,
moms, dads
and caregivers
are the heroes
children look
up to everyday.
You too can
become a
child's hero by
keeping a
smoke-free
home and car. Secondhand smoke can cause
children to suffer bronchitis, pneumonia, ear
infections and more severe asthma attacks. Read
More...
Join the millions of people who are protecting their
children from secondhand smoke.
Pledge to Keep Your Home and Car Smoke-
free in 3 easy steps:
1. Go to the Pledge Page and read helpful
information on making your home and car
smoke-free.
2. Simply enter your five digit zip code and
push the submit button. (Your pledge is
completely anonymous).
3. You're done! You can even get your own
Smoke-free Home Pledge Certificate by
double-clicking on the certificate. Proudly
display this to let your children, family and
visitors know you have taken an important
step to keep your home and car smoke-
free.
Secondhand
Smoke Can Make
Children Suffer
Serious Health
Risks
Breathing secondhand
smoke can be harmful to
children's health including
asthma, Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome (SIDS),
bronchitis and
pneumonia and ear
infections. Children's
exposure to secondhand
smoke is responsible for:
• increases in the
number of asthma
attacks and
severity of
symptoms in
200,000 to 1
million children
with asthma
• between 150,000
and 300,000 lower
respiratory tract
infections (for
children under 18
months of age)
• respiratory tract
infections resulting
in 7,500 to 15,000
hospitalizations
each year.
The developing lungs of
young children are
severely affected by
exposure to secondhand
smoke for several
reasons including that
children are still
developing physically,
have higher breathing
rates than adults, and
have little control over
their indoor
environments. Children
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receiving high doses of
secondhand smoke, such
as those with smoking
mothers, run the greatest
risk of damaging health
effects.
A few basic actions can
protect children from
secondhand smoke:
• Choose not to
smoke in your
home and car and
do not allow family
and visitors to do
so. Infants and
toddlers are
especially
vulnerable to the
health risks from
secondhand
smoke.
• Do not allow
childcare 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.
For more information on
secondhand smoke, see
EPA publications and
Take the Smoke-free
Home Pledge 1 -866-
SMOKE-FREE (1-866-
766-5337)
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