With less than six months until all District workplaces go smoke-free, the D.C. government is putting money into an effort to help more than 110,000 city smokers kick the habit.

As part of the fiscal 2007 budget, D.C. Council Member David Catania earmarked $500,000 for the Tobacco Free Families Campaign, a program operated by the local chapter of the American Lung Association. The funding will be used to provide smoking cessation therapies to health care clinics, launch the “D.C. Quit Line,” counsel new parents about the dangers of secondhand smoke for children and train cessation specialists who will conduct community quitting clinics.