“We need to stop normalising smoking around children and protect their still developing lungs from breathing in harmful second-hand smoke.”
A ban on smoking outside school gates has been backed by four in five people surveyed in Northern Ireland.
Smoking is the single largest cause of preventable ill health in Northern Ireland, contributing half of the difference in life expectancy between the richest and poorest groups in society and is directly or indirectly linked to thousands of deaths in Northern Ireland annually. This increase threatens to slow down the reduction of tobacco-linked disease prevalence over the next 25 years unless targeted action is taken to help these new smokers quit soon.
Joseph Carter, Head of Asthma + Lung UK Northern Ireland said: “We need to stop normalising smoking around children and protect their still developing lungs from breathing in harmful second-hand smoke.
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