Benefits to your Family
Benefits to your Family
Have healthier babies.
Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of complications, premature delivery, low-birth-weight infants, stillbirth, and sudden infant death syndrome. (source: CDC)
Create a healthy home.
Smoking leaves residual cancer-causing toxins called third hand smoke long after you've put out your cigarette. (source: Mayo Clinic)
Raise healthier kids.
Children with parents who smoke have higher blood pressure. (source: Journal of the American Heart Association)
Your family home will retain its value.
Not smoking protects your home and its contents from damage. It also retains its value if you decide to sell. (source: Smoke Free Oregon)
Protect your pets #1.
Research shows that secondhand smoke can cause cancers in dogs. (source: AVMA)
Reduce the chances your kids will smoke.
Even small levels of secondhand smoke increases the likelihood a non-smoker will get addicted to tobacco. (source: NIDA)
Protect your pets #2.
Lymphoma risk in cats more than doubles if the owners are smokers. (source: Tobacco Free Utah)
No secondhand smoke for your loved ones.
About 50,000 adult nonsmokers die each year from exposure to secondhand smoke. (source: Tobacco Free Kids)
Protect your pets #3.
Ingestion of the toxins in cigarette butts can cause vomitting, tremors, twitching, seizures, and even death for your pets. (source: Mar Vista Animal Hospital)
