Tips for Non-Smokers

These tips can help you create a smoke-free zone and learn ways to ask smokers to keep their smoke far away from you and your family.

 

• Let family, friends and people you work with know that you do care if they smoke around you and your children. It isn’t always easy, but it’s important.Your health and your children’s health is at stake.

 

• Make sure your child’s day-care and after-school programs are smoke-free.

 

• Put a “Smoke-Free Zone” sticker on the dashboard or window of your car. Most people will get the message without you having to say a word.
  

 

• Support smokers who are trying to quit.

 

Try something like this…

• “My child’s (or my) asthma and allergies are so much better when we’re not around smoke.”

 

• “We’re worried that if we smoke in front of the kids, they’ll think that it’s OK and do the same thing. You know how kids want to be like grown-ups and their parents.”

 

• “Did you know that when non-smokers breathe in cigarette smoke it’s like they’re smoking too?”