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SMOKE-FREE HOUSING: 

Ask your landlord to make your building and designated outside areas smoke-free. 

Know the facts:

  • Smoke drifting from lit tobacco products and/or exhaled by smokers seeps into the living spaces of other tenants; i.e. lighting fixtures, cracks in walls, around plumbing, under doors and shared heating/ventilation. (1)
  • Among the many illnesses caused or made worse by second hand smoke are: lung cancer, asthma, sinus infections, chronic cough, sudden infant death syndrome and heart disease (2)
  • Smoking is not a right guranteed under the Constitution. (3)
  • It's legal for landlords/management companies of private and public housing to adopt smoke-free building policies which protect your health and their property. (1)

Learn more:  http://www.smokefreehousingny.org/

 

SMOKE-FREE PARKS:

Write a letter to editor asking for smoke-free parks in your community and/or go to your local government meetings asking for smoke-free areas.

Know the facts:

  • Cigarettes and other lighted tobacco products are the number one cause of fire deaths in the United States. (4)
  • Cigarette butts can pose a significant litter burden and bans have the added effect of protecting infants and toddlers from ingesting tobacco from discarded cigarette butts. (5)
  • There is no risk-free level of exposure to Secondhand Smoke. (2)

Thank you to the Village of Cobleskill and the City of Oneonta for making areas of their parks smoke-free!

You can a send a Letter to the Editor of The Daily Star the following ways;

  • Letters can be e-mailed to letters@thedailystar.com
  • Letters can be faxed to 607-432-5707
  • Letters can be deilvered to The Daily Star Office at 102 Chestnut St. in Oneonta
  • Letters can be mailed to The Daily Star, PO Box 250, Oneonta, NY 13820

Remember letters must be signed and contain the writer's full name, address and telephone number for verification purposes.

OR GET INVOLVED WITH RURAL 3:  Call 1-866-3RURAL3!

References:

(1) MI Smoke-Free Apartments: www.mismokefreeapartment.org

(2) 2006 US Surgeon General's Report on Secondhand Smoke Exposure in the Home.  Untied States Department of Health and Human Services. 

(3) There is No Constitutional Right to Smoke, Technical Assistance Legal Center

(4) US Consumer Product Safety Commission.  Practicability of developing standard to reduce cigarette ignition propensity volume 1. Overview.  Washington DC: CPSC, 1993.

(5) Sharon, Massachusetts.  General By-laws, Article 10.  Smoking of tobacco products at public playgrounds and the public beaches at Lake Massapoag is banned.  Enacted May 1995.