"Our actions today determine the fate of our
children's tomorrow."
– Rez Seyedin, Founder, Smoke Free Society Education

Smoking should be a parent’s greatest concern
because it is associated with
other risky behaviors and health dangers.
Call to Parents
Want your kids to stay smoke free?
Get involved!
Preventing your kids from smoking through high school doubles the chances they won't smoke as adults.

CDC - Atlanta, Georgia
  Decline in Teen Smoking Hits a Wall!
 The campaign to reduce teenagers' smoking has stalled.
 This has very negative, long-term implications.
 June, 2008 - The newly released data by the Centers for Disease Control
 and Prevention (CDC) show that one of the nation's most-important public health priorities is faltering. The smoking rate among teenagers has shot up to 23%! (more)

FDA chief says
regulating tobacco could be harmful!
Proposed law would give agency power to cut cigarette nicotine levels - “We could find ourselves in the conundrum of having made a decision about nicotine only to have made the public health radically worse. And that is not the position FDA is in; we approve products that enhance health, not destroy it,” said Dr. Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach, a cancer surgeon.
He said repeatedly that the issue of regulating tobacco is a complex one. 
“What I don’t want to see happen is that we are in a position where we are determining that a cigarette is safe,”  (more)

No butts about it - No safe level of secondhand smoke
US Surgeon General's 2006, 670 page report presents many studies,
data and support materials to back it up! (read more)

"Stopping smoking represents the single most important step that smokers can take to enhance the length and quality of their lives."
— US Surgeon General

New Surgeon General's report expands list of diseases caused by smoking - The report also concludes that quitting smoking has immediate and long-term benefits, reducing risks for diseases caused by smoking and improving health in general. By quitting smoking today a smoker can assure a healthier tomorrow. "We've known for decades that smoking is bad for your health, but this report shows that it's even worse than we knew," Dr. Carmona said. "The toxins from cigarette smoke go everywhere the blood flows. I'm hoping this new information will help motivate people to quit smoking and convince young people not to start in the first place." (full story)

    • 1.5 cigarettes = Sitting in the non-smoking section of a restaurant
    • 3 cigarettes = Living in a pack-a-day smoker’s home
    • 4 cigarettes = Sitting in a smoky bar for two hours
    • 4 cigarettes = Riding in a car one hour with a smoker

Can lung cancer be cured? Luckily, lung cancer is one of the most preventable cancer around. The easiest ways to reduce your risk are to avoid secondhand smoke or if you smoke, quit. Did you know that lung cancer kills more people in the U.S. than any other cancer? This deadly disease will be diagnosed in 172,570 men and women this year alone. The key to protecting your health is to know who's at risk for the disease and how to spot its early symptoms. (full story)

Medicare to help kick smoking habit - Medicare said it intends to pay for counseling to help some of the nation's 4 million older smokers kick the habit. Medicare beneficiaries who smoke and have smoking-related diseases or take certain medicines will be eligible for Medicare-covered counseling when the proposal takes effect next year. Medicare would pay for up to four counseling sessions. If that doesn't suffice, smokers could get a second round of counseling. (full story)

Tobacco takes silent victims: America’s Children - Unintended exposure to secondhand smoke is critical burden on America’s children, says foundation responsible for effective truth® campaign. Passive exposure to secondhand smoke, also called environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), puts young people at risk for serious health consequences, including low birth weight, sudden infant death syndrome, asthma and ear infections. While the health consequences are devastating, the significant economic costs of treating children with smoking-related illnesses. (full story)

Pets in smoking households have an increased risk of various cancers - New Evidence that Second-hand Smoke Harms Pets - And your furry friends don't just inhale smoke; the smoke particles are also trapped in their fur and ingested when they groom themselves with their tongues. Of all the compelling reasons to quit smoking, this one should make pet lovers sit up and take notice: there's ample scientific evidence to suggest that secondhand smoke can cause cancer in companion animals. (full story)

ACS: Half of cancer deaths preventable - More than 60 percent of all cancer deaths could be prevented if Americans stopped smoking, exercised more, ate healthier food and got recommended cancer screenings, the American Cancer Society reported. And Americans could realistically cut the death rate in half, the report says. This year over 1.3 million Americans will learn they have cancer and 563,700 will die of it. "The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2005, more than 168,140 cancer deaths will be caused by tobacco use alone," the organization said in a statement. (full story)

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