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• National non-smoking week begins  

Jump to full article: BC Local News (ca), 2009-01-17

Intro:

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Today is also the first day of National Non-Smoking Week which runs until Saturday.

Most of us know how badly smoking can impact your health, so this year, National Non-Smoking Week is focusing on house fires.

“We all know about the negative effect of tobacco smoke on health, but very few of us may think about other consequences, such as house fire fatalities,” stated Trish Hill, senior tobacco reduction co-ordinator with Interior Health. . . .

Partners in this week’s awareness-raising effort include the B.C. Lung Association, the B.C. Cancer Agency and the Interior Health Tobacco Reduction program.

B.C. smoking rates are at 14 per cent, the lowest in Canada.

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