Comprehensive Smoke-Free Air
Fact sheet that explains how to work with key players to establish smoke-free policies for workforce housing.
Webinar describes how to create effective campus-wide tobacco-free policies.
Provides workplaces with tools to increase physical health of employees and other ways to increase health and productivity.
Model ordinance for a comprehensive smoke-free air ordinance for municipalities and businesses across the United States.
Model smoke-free policy for a university, including language on the harmful effects of smoke.
Model policy for K-12 school districts that want to adopt a policy prohibiting tobacco products and advertisements on campus.
Offers a model ordinance for cities and counties to limit exposure to secondhand smoke and limit tobacco use on beaches.
Offers a model ordinance for cities and counties to limit exposure to secondhand smoke in multiunit residences.
Offers a model ordinance for cities and counties to limit tobacco use and unwanted exposure to secondhand smoke in outdoor areas.
Offers a model ordinance for cities and counties to limit exposure to secondhand smoke and limit tobacco use in recreational areas such as parks, playgrounds, and sports fields.
Offers a model policy to help organizations limit tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke at events they sponsor, produce, or operate.
Resource brief makes the case and provides the evidence showing that businesses are not negatively impacted by smoke-free laws.
Webinar that offers an overview of the facts, figures, and trends associated with secondhand smoke exposure and multiunit housing, and shares the view of how research and policy can inform advocacy efforts and action plans.
Assists public health practitioners, advocates, policy makers, business leaders, and others by translating evidence-based tobacco control policies into implementation guidance.
Showcases policy strategies that support prevention of youth tobacco initiation, reduction in secondhand smoke exposure, and access to quitlines and cessation services.
Smoke-Free Multiunit Housing
Webinar explains how to create materials to gain support and help implement a smoke-free housing program.
Fact sheet that explains how to work with key players to establish smoke-free policies for workforce housing.
Webinar shows practitioners how to assess a community's housing stock and plan a course of action for creating a smoke-free housing program focused on multi-unit housing.
Reviews disability laws and explains how to request reasonable accommodation for a medical condition made worse by secondhand smoke.
Describes how a landlord can make common areas nonsmoking and outlines the steps a landlord must follow to change a lease to make a unit smoke-free.
Answers common questions about how condo owners can make their entire complex, including individual units, smoke-free.
Outlines the necessary legal steps one could take if one reaches the point where a lawsuit seems to be the only option for combating drifting tobacco smoke.
Illustrates how different options may be used to enforce a smoke-free housing law and highlights the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Webinar features stories from three tribal housing authorities who have successfully implemented no-smoking policies.
Offers a model ordinance for cities and counties to limit exposure to secondhand smoke in multiunit residences.
Outlines six options for condo owners who want to avoid unwanted exposure to secondhand smoke at home.
Webinar provides information on smoke-free housing programs across the United States and offers tips on sustaining a program with limited resources.
Webinar explains how practitioners can help residents transition to a smoke-free housing environment with cessation programs and outreach.
Policy brief provides benefits of making multiunit housing smoke-free and includes links to a number of existing policies.
Toolkit provides information and resources to help multifamily housing owners transition to smokefree housing.
Provides an online curriculum on how to implement a smoke-free policy in multiunit housing.
Webinar helps a practitioner plan a course of action for building relationships with multi-unit housing owners and making the case for joining a smoke-free housing program.
Webinar describes the importance and benefits of adoption smoke-free housing policies.
Webinar helps practitioners learn local, state, and federal laws about multi-unit housing and how they might be used in implementation of a smoke-free housing program.
Webinar guides practitioners through the policy adoption process for a smoke-free housing policy.
Webinar shows how practitioners can empower renters suffering from secondhand smoke with tools to create a healthier environment.
Zoning and Licensing
Summarizes the key elements of four licensing programs and describes how they were tailored for the unique political climate and the particular capabilities and resources in each local agency.
Links the ways in which health risks are related to aspects of the built environment and outlines ways to ensure that neighborhoods are designed to support health equity and community well-being.
Webinar that describes how the NYC Coalition for a Smoke-Free City was built and sustained over time.
Resource describes existing regulations for tobacco retailers and offers innovative ways that local licensing laws could be expanded to further protect consumers, such as children, from tobacco products and advertising.
Lists 23 municipalities that have restricted tobacco retailers near schools and provides details about the ordinances.
Provides a model ordinance that amends a jurisdiction's existing zoning code to regulate tobacco retailers.
Provides a model ordinance for cities and counties that want to require local tobacco retailer licensing to help ensure compliance with local business standards, reduce youth access to tobacco, and limit negative public health effects associated with tobacco use.
Addresses how public health can be improved when local governments exercise their constitutional, statutory, and charter authority to regulate the uses of land within their jurisdictions to control tobacco retailing.
Provides a model ordinance to help cities and counties limit the free or low cost distribution of tobacco products, also known as “sampling.”
Identifies the personnel and other operating costs associated with enforcing laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to minors.
Emerging Issues
Reviews data on health care spending growth, describes the reasons for the persistent high rates, and estimates the savings that could be gained with certain public policies.
Technical assistance brief for communities interested in implementing certain tobacco control measures.
Policy brief defines the trend of hookah smoking and lists potential policies to control its use.
Lists 23 municipalities that have restricted tobacco retailers near schools and provides details about the ordinances.
Resource includes facts about novel tobacco products and how they may or may not be regulated under FDA or local ordinances.
Webinar describes the impact that marketing strategies have on tobacco products and consumption rates.
Serves as a starting point for organizations interested in implementing certain tobacco control measures.
Webinar describes types of non-cigarette tobacco advertisements that are not currently regulated.
Resource makes the case for the benefits of a smoke-free workplace and provides a guide for implementing a smoke-free policy.
Resource brief makes the case and provides the evidence showing that businesses are not negatively impacted by smoke-free laws.
Fact sheet describes the negative effects of cigarette litter.
Lists the policy ideas that are affected by the 2009 FDA law and provides a chart to explain whether the suggested policies are legally safe to pursue and why.
Fact sheet answers basic questions about the 2006 landmark tobacco ruling and present-day judicial decisions that could inform tobacco control strategies.
Explains that most portions of the 2009 FDA Law apply to only a few types of tobacco products and lists their restrictions.
Pricing Strategies
Offers tools to tobacco control program managers who want to reduce tobacco use by raising the cost of tobacco products.
Reviews data on health care spending growth, describes the reasons for the persistent high rates, and estimates the savings that could be gained with certain public policies.
Explores past efforts to limit the consumption of unhealthy beverages and tobacco use, and analyzes why particular measures passed or failed.
Online toolkit of essential resources for tobacco control program managers to create a statewide pricing strategies plan.
Identifies the personnel and other operating costs associated with enforcing laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to minors.
Resource brief makes the case and provides the evidence showing that businesses are not negatively impacted by smoke-free laws.
Resource offers brief overviews of pricing strategies that can affect tobacco use, including non-tax policy interventions.
