You Can Protect Your Loved Ones
From Secondhand Smoke.

There is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke. It's the cause of an estimated 46,000 deaths every year in the United States, and is known to cause asthma, lung cancer, and heart disease.

Take action to protect the people you love:

• Learn easy steps to protect your family
• Read about smoke-free policies in Washington state
• Take a quiz to test your knowledge

Today, with the right information and tools, we can make choices in order to breathe easier and live longer. Explore SmokeFreeWashington.com and find out more about how to provide clean air for all.

• Video

  If you wrote a letter to yourself about smoking, what would you say?

  
  

  As part of the Dear Me campaign, people from across Washington state were invited to do just that, and a number of them wrote about the impact of secondhand smoke on their loved ones.

  
  

  While every letter is incredibly personal, each has the power to inspire us all. Watch these Dear Me videos, and then learn more about how you can protect your loved ones from secondhand smoke.

• News

• 10/09/11 – Cigarettes stuffed in a wall starts fire in apartment building

• 10/01/11 – CDC: Mining, Food Service, and construction workers smoke the most

• 09/29/11 – Campus smoking bans may help college students quit

• 09/28/11 – Healthy living discussed in Ephrata

• 09/23/11 – Fire destroys much of north Bellingham home