Besides not smoking, what else can parents do to protect their children from secondhand smoke?
Parents can protect their children by keeping their homes and cars smoke-free, dine in restaurants that are smoke-free, and teach their kids to stay away from secondhand smoke. The Cancer.Net Feature: Give Your Kids a Smoke-Free Childhood lists more tips for parents. Q: What is ASCO doing to promote tobacco control and prevention? A: ASCO is committed to making information about tobacco and cancer available to cancer care providers, so they can help their patients stop smoking. Our recently published curriculum on cancer prevention for medical professionals includes comprehensive information on smoking cessation, examines nicotine addiction, and addresses how to best help cancer patients quit smoking. ASCO also supports increased federal funding for research on tobacco-related cancer prevention and control, including studies to better understand how the type of tobacco consumed affects cancer risk and what treatment measures best help patients. Read ASCO’s policy statement on tobacco c
