How can I quit passive smoking?

Authors: Richardson, George; Eick, Susan

Source: Community Practitioner, Volume 78, Number 10, October 2005 , pp. 356-357(2)

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Abstract:

Passive smoking is a topical subject and there is a concerted movement to increase public understanding of the dangers of passive smoking. Although it looks likely that smoking could be banned in public places in the UK by the year 2008, it will still be difficult to enforce smoking bans in the last bastion for the smokers – their homes. Many smokers are aware of the risk their smoking causes their families through passive smoking but do not realise that the only true method for them to reduce exposure for their family is to smoke outside the home. This is partly because of a lack of understanding of the behaviour of environmental tobacco smoke and how smoking in restricted areas alone will not eliminate passive smoking for other family members in their homes.

Keywords: ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE; PASSIVE SMOKE; HOME SMOKING BANS; SMOKING RESTRICTIONS

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2005-10-01

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Community Practitioner - the journal of the Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association (Unite/CPHVA) - has a readership that includes over 20,700 healthcare professionals who work in the community, caring for over 5,000,000 clients, patients and families across the UK. These comprise health visitors, school nurses, district nurses, practice nurses, community paediatric nurses, community nursery nurses and other community-based practitioners.
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