At the tobacco control conference I’m currently attending, the issue of protecting women from smoking in the home came up today. A quick web search reveals that home-based workers are generally considered to mean those who work for pay, particularly home-based health care workers. But what about women performing household work in their own home? They are not paid, but they certainly work. If bans on smoking in public places are meant to protect workers, then those laws should protect all workers. Virtually all women engage in some sort of household work including cleaning, cooking, and caring for children and others, as a full-time job or in addition to their paid employment. Those laws should, then, cover women performing household work, whether in someone else’s home or in their own. Enforcement would not be easy, but simply raising awareness of the problem could be the first step towards a solution.