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Ban could reduce effects of home smoking, charity saysDate: 23/05/2007 09:54:58
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The imminent ban on smoking in public places may help to cut the number of children at risk of passive smoking, a public health charity has claimed.
Action on Smoking and Health (Ash) has predicted that many more people will try to quit their smoking habit when the ban comes into force or will take steps to adjust to life indoors without a cigarette in their hand.
The number of people lighting up in their own homes is likely to decrease, and the number of children at risk from inhaling second-hand smoke will decrease as a consequence, they said.
The comments come despite growing concerns that the July 1st ban on smoking in pubs, clubs and restaurants will only encourage more people to smoke in their own homes.
However this is a view Amanda Sandford, Ash research manager denies: "Once people get used to working and socialising in a smoke-free environment, they will quickly come to appreciate how much more pleasant it is, and they'll become to accept that as the norm.
"People will want to make the home environment equally pleasant and smoke-free, so they'll see that smoking in the home is not acceptable. People will realise that if they want to smoke, the only acceptable place to do that is outdoors.
She added that the dangers of passive smoking, particularly amongst children needed to be reinforced: "We do need to remind people of the need to protect the health of other people and children.
"Most people in flats have balconies so they can still go out of the building, or in very cold weather or they don't want to go out because it's raining, then keep it to one room and try to make sure that room is as well ventilated as possible.
"Always avoid doing it when the children are present."
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