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About Live Smoke Free

  1. Center for Energy and Environment. “Survey of Minnesota Renters Regarding Secondhand Smoke Movement in Apartment Buildings and Interest in Smoke-Free Buildings.” 2001. http://www.mncee.org/research/index.php

Quick Fixes

  1. Quick fix list modified from "Secondhand Smoke and Apartments, Condos, and Townhouses: What You Can do About it" booket. California Department of Health Services. 2004.

Secondhand Smoke Facts

  1. National Cancer Institute. Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke. 1999.
  2. National Toxicology Program. 11th Report of Carcinogens. 2005.
  3. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General.” 2006. http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/reportspublications.html
  4. U.S. Centers for Disease Control. http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco
  5. BlueCross BlueShield of Minnesota. “Health Care Costs and Secondhand Smoke: The Bottom Line.” 2007.
  6. Center for Energy and Environment. “Survey of Minnesota Renters Regarding Secondhand Smoke Movement in Apartment Buildings and Interest in Smoke-Free Buildings.” 2001. http://www.mncee.org/research/index.php
  7. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “State-Specific Prevalence of Current Cigarette Smoking Among Adults and Secondhand Smoke Rules and Policies in Homes and Workplaces—United States, 2005.” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report [serial online]. 2006;55(42):1148–1151 [cited 2006 Oct 30]. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5542a2.htm

Smoke-Free Policy Benefits

  1. Center for Energy and Environment. “Survey of Minnesota Renters Regarding Secondhand Smoke Movement in Apartment Buildings and Interest in Smoke-Free Buildings.” 2001. http://www.mncee.org/research/index.php
  2. Smoke-Free Housing Project (Oregon). A program of the American Lung Association of Oregon. 2007. http://www.smokefreeoregon.com/housing
  3. Tobacco Control Legal Consortium. “Regulating Cigarettes for Fire Safety.” 2007.
  4. U.S. Fire Administration.“Residential Smoking Fires and Causalities.” Topical Fire Research Series, Volume 5, Issue 5. 2005. http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/statistics/reports/index.shtm
  5. Minnesota Fire Marshal. “Fire Fatalities.” 2006. http://www.fire.state.mn.us/FireInvest/FireFatalityDetail06.html
  6. Coalition for Fire Safe Cigarettes. "Fast Facts." http://www.firesafecigarettes.org
  7. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General.” 2006. http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/secondhandsmoke
  8. California Environmental Protection Agency. Proposed Identification of Environmental Tobacco Smoke as a Toxic Air Contaminant. 2005.

Tenant Index

  1. Center for Energy and Environment. “Survey of Minnesota Renters Regarding Secondhand Smoke Movement in Apartment Buildings and Interest in Smoke-Free Buildings.” 2001. http://www.mncee.org/research/index.php

Tenants' Legal Rights

  1. Graff, Samantha K. "There is No Constitutional Right to Smoke." Produced by the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium. 2005. http://www.tclconline.org/resources/No+Constitutional+Right+to+Smoke.pdf
  2. Gronewold, Stephen J. Letter on smoke-free policies (PDF. Opens in new window). From U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Minneapolis Field Office. 2007.
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