Smoke Free Homes was a pilot set up in 2004 by Sue Hopkinson and JudithMace, a volunteer network co-ordinator and a health co-ordinator workingat Bacup and Stacksteads Sure Start, Lancashire. Health professionalsworking with primary care trusts and children's centres distributeapplication forms asking families to sign up to total or partial smokingbans at home. Parents are then offered help to break the habit.
Ms Hopkinson said, 'The scheme now covers half of 62 children's centresin Lancashire and hopes to roll out across the entire county within thenext two years, reaching 28,000 families in total.'
Fears have been raised that the ban on smoking in public places willincrease smoking at home, putting children's health at greater risk.According to government health figures, 17,000 children under the age offive are admitted to hospital each year from exposure to second-handsmoke.
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