The better choice for everyone — smoke free housing

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

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