Passive smoking: there's nothing passive about it

This leaflet highlights the health risks of passive smoking to adults and children, and suggests way of minimising your exposure to second-hand smoke.

Passive smoking there's nothing passive about it

This poster highlights how passive smoking increases your risk of lung cancer, heart disease, asthma and stroke.

Give your baby a breather

This resource explains why smoking while pregnant is harmful for both mother and baby, highlights the health effects of passive smoking after birth and provides advice to help women stop smoking, including information about nicotine replacement therapy.

Every cigarette is doing your baby damage

This poster highlights the fact that smoking while pregnant increases the risk of low birth weight, premature birth, stillbirth and cot death, and directs women to the Smokers' Helpline.

Adult non-smokers' exposure to second-hand smoke

This quantitative study was commissioned by the DHSSPS as part of their smoke-free monitoring and evaluation strategy after the introduction of smoke-free legislation in Northern Ireland in April 2007.The research was undertaken to determine the impact of smoke-free legislation on non-smoking adults who live with a smoker.Using research carried out both before and after the introduction of smoke-free legislation, this study details for the first time the attitudes and knowledge of non-smoking adults living with smokers in Northern Ireland, in relation to second-hand smoke.The study also reports non-smokers' exposure to second-hand smoke in a range of environments.

One breath two lives

This poster highlights the fact that cigarette smoke breathed in by the mother reaches her unborn baby and directs women to the Smokers' Helpline.

Factsheet: the health risks of second-hand smoke

This factsheet summarises why one person's smoking can be harmful to others, by highlighting the health risks of second-hand smoke to adults and children.�

Tobacco Control Northern Ireland

Cigarettes are the only legal product which, when used as intended, will kill half of its users. Furthermore, smoking has been identified as the single greatest cause of preventable illness and premature death in Northern Ireland with one in every six deaths in Northern Ireland being attributable to smoking. These and other key facts about tobacco, e-cigarettes and the tobacco industry are summarised in a new tobacco briefing paper ��'Tobacco Control Northern Ireland��'.