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Smoking ban gets a boost
By Laura Marcus,
Nursery World,
28 June 2007
A scheme encouraging parents to stop smoking at home is reaching thousands of families in northern England, in time for the start of the nationwide smoking ban on Sunday.
Smoke Free Homes was a pilot set up in 2004 by Sue Hopkinson and Judith Mace, a volunteer network co-ordinator and a health co-ordinator working at Bacup and Stacksteads Sure Start, Lancashire. Health professionals working with primary care trusts and children's centres distribute application forms asking families to sign up to total or partial smoking bans at home. Parents are then offered help to break the habit. Ms Hopkinson said, 'The scheme now covers half of...
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