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Understand the responsibilities of parents with regard to smoking and the health of the family

Watch a video about how the NHS helped pregnant mothers in the Stockton and Hartlepool areas give up smoking. 'NHS patient stories - Stop Smoking' produced by Worldsight Media.

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Click to read ‘Secondhand Smoke: The impact on children’, a report produced by Action on Smoking and Health which summarises the effects of secondhand smoke on children, explains the health consequences of passive smoking, and provides advice on measures parents can take to ensure that the risk to children is minimised as much as possible.
Click to revisit the NHS website and explore a webpage titled ‘Passive smoking’. This webpage explains the different adverse effects that smoking has on a whole family, including health risks and the financial cost.
Click to read this informative resources on the subject of smoking and pregnancy from Smokefree.
This article from the NHS examines ‘What are the health risks of smoking?’

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