Protecting your kids from smoking can be a challenge, and you may feel that there is nothing you can do to influence whether they smoke or not. What you say to them has more power than you may think it does.

The most important things to do are:

- Let them know you do not want them to smoke.

- Reduce the chance of them taking up smoking by not smoking yourself

- Have a smokefree home and car, and make sure everyone knows the rules

- Monitor how much smoking they see on TV, in movies, video games and music clips. Let them know that the Tobacco Industry pays to have people smoking in movies. It's a form of advertising designed to suck them in to trying a cigarette.