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Jeffrey Reardon, 2, attended the smoke- the campaign to encourage people to free car campaign at Gus Brown Motors make their vehicles smoke-free. Kits are recently. The Region of Durham launched available including smoke-free stickers. Wiping out ashtrays on wheels BY CRYSTAL CRIMI Staff Writer DURHAM - The region's health department wants to make ashtrays on wheels a thing of the past. The smoke-free car campaign kicked off Thursday at Gus Brown Pontiac Buick in Whitby with the health department providing 'Smoke Free For Me and My Kids' packages. The kits contain information about second-hand smoke and making a vehicle vehicle smoke-free. "Protection from second-hand smoke is as important as protection from automobile accidents," said Dr. Robert Kyle, commissioner and medical medical officer of health for the Durham Region Health Department. "It's along the spectrum of something we can do to protect our. kids. "We're encouraging people to take action and build toward their families' health," he added, "There's no safe level of second-hand smoke." As part of the campaign, every Gus Brown Pontiac Buick vehicle delivered delivered will contain a Smoke Free For Me and My Kids package with a sticker to declare the vehicle a nonsmoking nonsmoking environment. Exposure to second-hand smoke has various affects on children, such as sudden infant death, low birth weight, pneumonia, bronchitis, ear infections, infections, and puts children at higher . risk for developing asthma or having more frequent and severe asthma attacks. attacks. According to the 2001 Health Department Department Survey, one third of adult residents smoke in their cars. Secondhand Secondhand smoke has more than 4,000 chemicals, which are more harmful ones than the smoke a smoker inhales directly. "We know people make decisions for their children before they make them for themselves and we wanted to highlight that," said Brian Dallaway, public health nurse with the health department. department. "We want to raise awareness awareness of second hand smoke and its dangers so people can decide what areas of their life they want to make smoke free." He added the region is hoping people people driving home in traffic will see the smoke free stickers on vehicles, look at the car seat in the back and change their minds about smoking in the car. Brooklin resident, Sharon Reardon wouldn't dare let anyone smoke in a car with her two-year-old twin boys. "It would be like not putting their scat-belt on or feeding them junk food every day," she said. "People think rolling down the window window makes it OK (to smoke in the car) but it's not because because it usually just blows into the backseat - it's almost almost worse to smoke in the car because it's so contained." contained." 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