Secondhand smoke is the smoke exhaled from the lungs of smokers and the smoke that comes from the burning end of a cigarette, cigar or pipe. The smoke from the burning end of a cigarette has many harmful chemicals.

This is what you can do to protect yourself and your family from secondhand smoke:

• Don't smoke in your home.
• Ask other people not to smoke in your home, especially baby-sitters or others who may care for your children.
• Ask smokers to go outside while they smoke.
• Help people who are trying to quit smoking.

What if you smoke?

• Never smoke around children.
• Children are especially sensitive to the dangers of secondhand smoke.

What can you do to protect yourself and your family outside of your home?

• Make sure your child's day–care, school and after–school programs are smoke-free.
• Ask your employer to make sure you do not have to breathe other people's smoke at work.

Call your local American Lung Association at 1-800-LUNG-USA (1-800-586-4872) to find out more about how to stop smoking for good. The American Lung Association is offering a new way to stop smoking through its Freedom From Smoking® online smoking cessation clinic.

The program is based on the American Lung Association's Freedom From Smoking® program, which has already helped thousands of smokers quit smoking for good. The Freedom From Smoking® online smoking cessation clinic can be accessed day or night, seven days a week, on any schedule a smoker chooses.

Visit www.ffsonline.org and stop smoking today!

This is the most important step you can take to protect yourself and your family from the dangers of secondhand smoke.