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Smokefree Policies in Multi-Unit Housing: Steps for Success
This online curriculum from the American Lung Association, is a guide for promoting, planning and implementing a smoke-free multi-unit housing policy.
Tobacco Prevention Policy Tool
This tool from the American Academy of Pediatrics showcases policy strategies that support tobacco prevention.
Saturday, January 7, 2012
York News-Times
Housing that is smoke free is preferred by tenants and often they are willing to pay more in order to be in a building where others aren't smoking.
Just one person smoking in a building can cause secondhand smoke, which is the combination of smoke exhaled by a smoker and the smoke from a burning cigarette, pipe, or cigar.
This combination is dangerous for both the smoker and the non-smoker.
The benefits of a building being smoke free are many: Improves the quality of the air - Cigarette smoke travels throughout a building.
Studies on air quality in apartment buildings show that anywhere from 5% to 60% of the air in apartment units move from other units in the building.
Reduces the risk of fire - The death rate from smoking related fires is nearly four times higher than that of fires unrelated to smoking... Read More
http://www.yorknewstimes.com/articles/2012/01/07/news/doc4f07ed4e3443a768971795.txt


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