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Condo smoking bans catch fire around Chicago — July 7, 2015
By Dennis Rodkin Chicago Real Estate Daily, July 2, 2015 A handful of Chicago condo buildings have recently decreed that smoking isn’t allowed anywhere indoors-no ifs, ands or butts-even in …
KHA smoke-free housing is a success — December 29, 2014
KENNEWICK, Wash. — KEPR is following up on the decision to ban smoking in all units run by the Kennewick Housing Authority. Four years later, the agency says there’s been …
Dartmouth researchers unveil first real-time secondhand smoke sensor — October 27, 2014
PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 27-Oct-2014 Contact: John Cramer John.Cramer@Dartmouth.edu 603-646-9130 Dartmouth College @dartmouth Dartmouth College researchers are going to market with the first-ever sensor that detects secondhand and thirdhand tobacco and …
HUD’s Action Plan to Create Smoke-free Multifamily Housing — October 20, 2014
October 20, 2014 The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes released today Change is in the Air: An Action …
Study: Smoking ban in public housing saves Maine $1 million annually — October 9, 2014
Maine saves more than $1 million every year by banning smoking in public housing, according to a new study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Maine is …
Massachusetts moving to stamp out smoking in public housing citing health, safety concerns — April 3, 2014
BOSTON – Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration moved Thursday to stamp out smoking in public housing in Massachusetts. The Department of Housing and Community Development issued guidelines to all 240 local …
Passive smoking causes irreversible damage to kids’ arteries — March 4, 2014
Exposure to second-hand smoke in childhood causes irreversible damage to children’s arteries – increasing their risk of heart attacks or strokes when they grow up, according to a large international …
Third-hand smoke just as lethal as first-hand smoke — January 31, 2014
A scientist at the University of California, Riverside suggests that second-hand smoke and third-hand smoke are just as deadly as first-hand smoke. While first-hand smoke refers to the smoke inhaled …
Smoking banned at Houston public housing — January 24, 2014
City agency puts policy in force in all of its units The Houston Housing Authority has instituted a smoke-free policy intended to snuff out the consequences of direct or secondhand …
Toledo public housing complexes go smoke-free — January 3, 2014
TOLEDO (AP) – Seven public housing complexes in Toledo are going smoke-free starting Wednesday. The Blade (http://bit.ly/1djU8Zx ) reports that the tobacco-free policy adopted by the Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority’s …