Everyone knows that smoking is bad for your health. And they also know that it is difficult to give up. That is why it is important that we ensure children and young people are exposed to smoking as little as possible. We are doing our best to prevent children and young people from taking up smoking. The government’s aim is for children to grow up without any exposure to smoke, for no children or pregnant women to smoke, and for no more than 5% of adults to smoke.
The local authority is taking part in the national initiative, the Smoke-Free Generation. It is committed to creating a smoke-free environment for children. You can already see the recognisable blue signs and tiles of the Smoke-Free Generation in more and more places: at school playgrounds, sports clubs, swimming pools and (theme) parks. More and more places are becoming smoke-free. This includes Apeldoorn. And we’re delighted about that! As a local authority, we’re adding all play areas with multiple play structures and all bus shelters to this list this year. That amounts to a total of around 125 play areas and 222 bus stops.
By discouraging smoking, we want to ensure that fewer and fewer young people take up smoking and that more and more adults give it up.
We also support all organisations, businesses and associations that want to take the step towards becoming smoke-free. Together, we really can make a difference.
Would you like your club or organisation to move towards a smoke-free future too? Through the Smoke-Free Generation initiative, sports clubs, playgroup associations, scout groups and outdoor swimming pools can become (partially) smoke-free Request free signs and materials.
We encourage parents to raise their children to be smoke-free. To this end, we work closely with partners in our local authority who provide information to young people and their carers. These partners draw on their expertise in growing up, parenting and addiction. And when assessing a grant application from an organisation frequented by many children, we make a smoke-free environment a condition, for example.
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