Smoke Free Homes

On Tuesday 19th August 2008, the Primary Care Trust, in assocation with Yorkshire County Cricket Club, hosted a Cricket Fun Day at Crossflats Park in Beeston, Leeds to promote a major Smoke Free Homes campaign.

The campaign runs alongside a similar initiative in Lahore, Pakistan, spearheaded by the PCT at the request of the Institute of Public Health in Lahore. The focus is mainly on children who suffer most through breathing in second-hand smoke, and was designed to educate people on the dangers of smoking and outline how they can achieve gold in the smoke-free homes challenge.

As part of the smoke free homes challenge householders are encouraged to go for gold by signing up to the following steps:
Step one – Promise to never smoke in the presence of children.
Step two – Promise to limit smoking to one well-ventilated room and never to smoke in the presence of children.
Going for Gold (Step three) – Promise to make the house totally smoke free at all times.

“We look forward to working with people in Beeston over the next six months on a number of fun initiatives which includes a Cricket Fun Day on Tuesday 19th August with support kindly offered by Yorkshire Cricket Club and interactive sessions in schools and mosques.” Dr Ian Cameron, Director of Public Health at Leeds PCT

“As part of our smoke free homes campaign we held a cricket fun day in Beeston. We were grateful for the fantastic support we received for the event from Yorkshire County Cricket Club which helped us to engage with the community and deliver our message.” Shak Rafiq, Leeds

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