Edited by Valerie Gotten
SACRAMENTO, Calif. /California Newswire/ — Calif. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Pacoima) announced today that Governor Jerry Brown
has signed into law SB 332. This new law expands the availability of smoke-free housing in California by allowing landlords to prohibit
smoking in rental units. The law goes into effect on January 1, 2012.
“With the Governor’s action today, we will see the availability of smoke-free, multi-family housing grow throughout California,” said
Senator Padilla. “While more than 86% of Californians do not smoke, there is currently very little smoke-free housing in California.
Living in multi-family housing should not compromise the health of renters or their children. This new law will provide tenants with
healthier choices,” said Padilla.
Currently, a landlord may include terms in a rental agreement such as restricting pets, noise, and specific furniture such as
waterbeds. Despite the negative health effects of secondhand smoke there is nothing in current law that explicitly permits a landlord
to restrict smoking. SB 332 would change this while complying with all federal, state, and local requirements governing changes to
the terms of a rental or lease agreement.
Over 30 percent of California housing is multi-family residences. Secondhand smoke can travel in and out of open windows and
doors, through shared ventilation systems, walls, ceiling crawl spaces, and gaps around electrical wiring, light fixtures, plumbing,
ductwork, and even baseboards.
“We know that second hand smoke is harmful. With this new law renters will have much greater chance of finding a smoke-free
environment in which to live,” said Senator Padilla.
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Ban Smoking in Public Housing
By Jonathan P. Winickoff | NEWSWEEK Published Jun 27, 2009 From the magazine issue dated Jul 13, 2009
Ten years ago, I was the doctor for an 18-year-old with cystic fibrosis whose mother was a heavy smoker. The patient told me how she coughed, wheezed, and choked when she was at home. I became close with her; it seemed she was always in the hospital, and I couldn't help but think it was because she wanted to escape a toxic environment. Three years later, at 21, she died—more than 14 years before a person with cystic fibrosis could be expected to live at that time.
She is not the only young patient of mine to feel the effects of secondhand smoke. More must be done to address this suffering. President Obama's Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act is a great step toward accomplishing this goal: it gives the FDA authority to regulate tobacco, especially as it pertains to minors. But change can't come fast enough for children from lower income levels, where rates of exposure to secondhand smoke are especially high—not surprising, given that poor adults smoke at higher rates. Children in densely populated public housing suffer the worst.
That's ironic, since these smoke-filled environments are subsidized by the same government that spends billions of dollars on secondhand-smoke- related disease. Public-housing programs receive federal taxpayer funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. HUD does not prohibit local public-housing authorities from making their buildings smoke-free, but it does not require it either. It should.
Across America, landlords of privately owned multiple housing units are implementing popular smoke-free policies; taxpayers funding public accommodations should demand the same. A smoke-free designation means higher property values, and lower fire risk, insurance, and clean-up costs. But most important, it means a healthier life for children.
Some people argue that smoke-free regulation weighs against our longstanding cultural values surrounding privacy and protecting the sanctity of our homes. These values are important. But when considering them against the health of a child who has never smoked but is suffering from tobacco exposure in his own building, the choice is clear to me.
Winickoff is a pediatrician at Mass General Hospital for Children and Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Tobacco Consortium. Find this article at http://www.newsweek.com/id/204224 © 2009
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Smoke-Free Multi-Unit Housing: (See AZ Smoke-Free Multi-Unit Options Below)
Tanner Community Development Corporation strategizes in support of
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(08/25/09) Charles Monroe, Gladys Cedillos and Claudia Troutman at "Anti-Tobacco Community of
Practice" meeting, focusing on smokefree multi-unit housing.
smokefree multi-unit homes
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(08/25/09) Linda Arroyo (at head of table) with Emma Ditsworth, Susan Bergquist and Esther
Compton also participated.
Conversation also
included "The
Manna Ministry of
Hope", smokefree
military and
fraternal clubs and
Smokefree Arizona.
Arizonans Concerned About Smoking's (l to r) Phil Carpenter, Al
Brasher and Dottie Brasher also work in support of TCDC goals.
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Private Residences
Private residences are one of the seven exemptions of the Smoke-Free Arizona Act A.R.S. § 36-601.01(“the Act”). Smoking is allowed in private
residences, except when used as a licensed child care, adult day care, or health care facility.
The Act does not address smoke entering into a private residence from outside, through a ventilation system, or from a neighboring residence.
Homes Licensed as Health Care Facilities
The Arizona Department of Health Services will regulate tobacco smoke at a private residence when the private residence is used as:
A licensed health care institution, including an area of the private residence that is used as an adult day care [an adult day health care facility as defined in
A.R.S. § 36-401(A)(4)] during the hours for which the area is licensed;
A licensed child care facility or an area of the private residence that is a certified area of a child care group home; or
A health care facility.
Smoking is allowed outside and on outdoor patios, such as back porches or balconies, as long as tobacco smoke does not enter into the licensed
private residence.
For more information about how the Act affects your licensed facility, please contact us at 1-877-AZ STOPS (1-877-297-8677).
Multi-Family Housing
Individual Units
Smoking inside individual multi-family housing units such as apartments, condominiums, or duplexes is allowed. Each individual unit is exempt
from the Act because they are considered private residences; therefore, tenants can smoke on their balconies, patios, or decks even if it is within
20 feet of a neighboring unit. The Act does not address the issue of smoke entering from outside, through a ventilation system, or from a
neighboring residence.
Please keep in mind that a proprietor may designate their rental unit as nonsmoking. Multi-family housing residents should follow the smoking
policy set by their landlord. However, Smoke-Free Arizona Program officials can only enforce the provisions defined in the Act. "Proprietor" means
an owner,operator,manager, or other person in control of a public place or a place of employment
For additional information on smoke-free housing, please visit our Links and Resources section.
Enclosed Common Areas
Smoking is prohibited inside and within 20 feet of entrances, open windows, and ventilation systems of enclosed common areas of multi-family
housing such as the main office, laundry room, fitness center, activity center, or clubhouse.
Outdoor Common Areas
Smoking is allowed outdoors as long as smoking occurs at least 20 feet away from entrances, open windows, and ventilation systems of an
enclosed area where smoking is prohibited unless defined differently by a local ordinance. Outdoor common areas may include courtyards,
sidewalks, walkways, tennis courts, volleyball courts, basketball courts, playgrounds, or swimming pools. Please remember that a proprietor may
designate the entire property as non-smoking.
Swimming Pools
Smoking around outdoor swimming pools, such as the ones in apartment complexes or condominiums, is allowed as long as smoke is not
entering into enclosed common areas where smoking is prohibited. Enclosed areas near pools may include laundry rooms, activity centers,
clubhouses, bathrooms, or changing rooms.
Swimming pools may have their own smoking policy set by the proprietor. Multi-family housing residents should follow the smoking policy set by
their residential complex.
* Keep in mind that Smoke-Free Arizona Program officials can only enforce the provisions defined in the Smoke-Free Arizona Act. This means that
Smoke-Free Arizona program officials do not enforce local ordinances or in-house smoking policies.

Aging Services of Arizona has had smokefree multi-unit housing policy since 2007
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Mayor Thomas Menino lights up battle of the butt
Launches crusade to ban smoking in public housing
said Phyllis Corbitt, who lives in Southie’s Old Colony. “That’s what I have to live with now, and I don’t smoke but I’m getting second-
hand smoke anyways.”
The newly built smoke-free units include: 14 at Franklin Hill in Dorchester that opened in October; up to 100 at Roslindale’s
Washington-Beech that will open in August; and 100 at Old Colony by 2012.
While those units represent less than 2 percent of the BHA’s 12,000 units, it’s a start, said
Menino.
“I would think in the next three to four years every public housing unit will be a smoke-free
unit,” he said.
The ban comes amid a perfect storm of factors, according to BHA officials:
Demand by parents. Children in public housing are more likely to have asthma and to live with or around cigarette smoke, which
triggers asthma attacks.
Pressure from the feds. In July, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development “strongly encouraged” public housing
authorities go smoke-free.
Cost. It costs $3,600 to clean a smoker’s public housing unit between tenants, six times as much as for a nonsmoker, according to
Smoke-Free Housing New England.
Tenants are fed up. A BHA survey at Washington-Beech found 80 percent wanted to ban smoking. The BHA will hold public meetings
before a smoke-free policy is set at any housing project, but is is anticipated that all the new units at Washington-Beech will be
smoke-free.
“The tenants say ,‘This is what we’ve been asking for. We don’t want to deal with the smell,’ ” said Edna Carrasco, director of
Programs for the Committee for Boston Public Housing, a nonprofit advocacy group.
That resonates with Menino, who in 2003 banned smoking in all Hub workplaces, including bars and restaurants.
“What we are trying to do is make a cleaner and healthier place to live,” said Menino.

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Mayor Thomas M. Menino is opening a new front in his war against tobacco: the city’s
cigarette-riden housing projects, which he vows to make smoke-free in the next four years.
“What we are trying to do is make a healthier environment for people who work and live in
our city,” Menino told the Herald.
By this summer, smoking could be banned in more than 100 new units in Boston Housing
Authority public housing, which currently sees rates of smoking 50 percent higher than
the general population. According to a 2006 city survey, 15.5 percent of nonpublic
housing residents smoke, compared to 23 percent of BHA renters.
“They smoke in the hallways so everyone else has the fumes coming in under their door,”
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino
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Children living in apartments with nonsmoking adults still exposed
Secondhand Smoke Is a Danger to Infants and Children.
- Mothers who smoke are at a higher risk of having a
baby with low birthweight.
- Smoking during pregnancy is associated with
sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
- Children with asthma who are exposed to
secondhand smoke have more intense and more frequent episodes of asthma.
- Children exposed to secondhand smoke tend to
have more respiratory problems such as bronchitis, colds, frequent ear infections, and pneumonia
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The majority of children living in apartments are exposed to secondhand smoke, even when they don't live with
smokers. This study from the University of Rochester Medical Center is the first to examine whether housing type is a potential
contributor to children's exposure to cigarette smoke. The abstract was presented this morning at the Pediatric Academic Society
Meeting in Vancouver, Canada.
Among children who lived in an apartment, 84 percent had been exposed to tobacco smoke, according to the level of a biomarker
(cotinine) in their blood that indicates exposure to nicotine found in tobacco, and this included more than 9 of 10 African-American
and white children. Even among children who lived in detached houses, 70 percent showed evidence of exposure.
"We are starting to understand the role that seepage through walls and through shared ventilation may impact tobacco smoke
exposure in apartments," said Karen Wilson, M.D., MPH, author of the study and an assistant professor of Pediatrics at the University
of Rochester Medical Center's Golisano Children's Hospital. "We see that children are being exposed in ways we are not picking up,
and it's important, for their health, that we figure out where this exposure is taking place, and work to eliminate it. Multi-unit housing is
one potential source, but a very important one."
Previous studies have shown that children with cotinine levels indicating tobacco smoke exposure have higher rates of respiratory
diseases, decreased cognitive abilities and decreased antioxidant levels.
The study analyzed data from almost 6,000 children between 6- and 18-years-old in a national database (National Health and
Nutrition Examination Survey 2001-2006) to see if there was any relationship between their smoke exposure and their housing type.
Apartment living was associated with a 45 percent increase in cotinine levels for African American children and a 207 percent
increase for white children. About 18 percent of U.S. children live in apartments, and many of these children are living in subsidized
housing communities where smoking is more prevalent.
Wilson said many parents are trying to limit their children's tobacco smoke exposure by not allowing smoking in their apartments, but
they say they can smell tobacco smoke coming from other apartments or from common areas. Last summer, the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development released a memo recommending that their housing developments enact smoke-free policies. A
smoking ban within multi-unit, subsidized housing could further reduce the tobacco smoke exposure for children and reduce smoking
rates among residents.
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This study was funded by the AAP Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence, through a grant from the Flight Attendant Medical
Research Institute.
Public release date: 1-May-2010 | Contact: Heather Hare | 585-273-2840 | University of Rochester Medical Center
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Smokefree Reports:
Calif. Governor Signs Senator Padilla's Smoke-Free Rental Housing Bill
| September 07, 2011 | California News Wire | October 06, 2011 |
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Maricopa County Smoke-Free Multi-housing Community Options:
Manistee Manor Apartment Homes 'An Active Senior Community'
7987 North 53rd Avenue
Glendale, AZ 85301
ManisteeManor.com
The entire property at Manistee is smoke free - no designated smoking areas. We have 75 - 1 bedroom apartments for low-income
seniors. We should have a website up and going in the next month and will forward you the information soon.
For information contact via email at office@manisteemanor.phxcoxmail.com or phone the office at (623) 915-5039.
Thanks to Debi Windahl, Administrator, Manistee Manor
Additional New Multihousing properties in Maricopa County that have varying smokefree policies:
Waymark Gardens – Senior (Age 62+ and Mobility Impaired) – smokefree with designated smoking area outside – 150 units
5325 W Butler Drive
Glendale, AZ 85302
(623) 931-7002
Rehoboth Place - 47 Unit, Multi-Family, Affordable Housing Community
2610 W Hazelwood Street
Phoenix, AZ 85017
(602) 281-6058
The entire property at Rohoboth Place is smoke free - no designated smoking areas.
Native American Connections/Devine Legacy on Central - First Affordable Apartment Community on the Metro Light Rail line
4570 N Central Ave.
Phoenix, AZ 85012
(602) 903-4172
nativeconnections.org/about/locations/devine-legacy-on-central
The entire property at Native American Connections/Devine Legacy on Central is Tobacco Free. They have a Smoking Ramada
located far away from any units that is also shared by Native American Connections Building smoking occupants.