Progress Continues into 2012 from Statewide Success in 2011 for Increasing Smokefree Housing, Improving Residents’ Health

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Protecting Californians from Secondhand Smoke

Over the course of 2011, great strides were made throughout the Golden State in protecting Californians where they are most vulnerable to secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure—their homes. Numerous state, county, and city officials have recognized the need to address SHS in multi-unit housing.

At the state level, the California legislature passed SB 332 this past September, which clearly states a landlord’s authority to ban smoking on their residential properties. Although landlords have always had the authority to implement policies, including smoke-free policies, pertaining to the well-being of their tenants and their buildings, some landlords had been hesitant to do so because they were not able to find language explicitly declaring that authority. Effective January 1, 2012, the SB 332 authorizes “a landlord of a residential dwelling unit to prohibit the smoking of tobacco products on the property, in a dwelling unit, in another interior or exterior area, or on the premises on which the dwelling unit is located.”

Click here to read the full statement at the People’s CORE blog.

Members of Healthy Lungs @ Home: Cerritos-Artesia meet with Senator Alan Lowenthal, whose district includes Cerritos and Artesia, and District Representative Irantzu Pujadas.Members of Healthy Lungs @ Home: Cerritos-Artesia meet with Senator Alan Lowenthal, whose district includes Cerritos and Artesia, and District Representative Irantzu Pujadas.

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Congrats to the newly re/elected ABC Unified School Board members! At last night’s reorganization meeting, they each took their oath of office while surrounded by family, friends, and community. Healthy Lungs @ Home looks forward to partnering with the School Board in the near future and working together in pursuit of healthier homes for students and families.

Congrats to the newly re/elected ABC Unified School Board members! At last night’s reorganization meeting, they each took their oath of office while surrounded by family, friends, and community. Healthy Lungs @ Home looks forward to partnering with the School Board in the near future and working together in pursuit of healthier homes for students and families.

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Earlier this month, President Barack Obama urged people to say no to tobacco on Nov 17’s Great American Smokeout.

“The fact is, quitting smoking is hard,” Obama says in a White House video. “Believe me, I know. But we can make it easier.”

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Dr. Jonathan Fielding, Director of LA County Public Health, now at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles addressing the press about the dangers of secondhand smoke in apartments and condos and the importance of creating smoke-free multi-unit housing.

Dr. Jonathan Fielding, Director of LA County Public Health, now at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles addressing the press about the dangers of secondhand smoke in apartments and condos and the importance of creating smoke-free multi-unit housing.

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Also for District Days #DD2011, we met with Sen. Alan Lowenthal himself this week! Another productive meeting and we’re glad we can count on the support of the 27th Senate District.

Also for District Days #DD2011, we met with Sen. Alan Lowenthal himself this week! Another productive meeting and we’re glad we can count on the support of the 27th Senate District.

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Requested some postcards today for District Days #DD2011 courtesy of @TobaccoPolicy! We invite Cerritos and Artesia residents to share through these postcards how smoking has impacted their lives. The postcards will then be hand-delivered to elected state officials during District Days, an event where community members all over California meet with state senators and assemblymembers to discuss the life-saving tobacco control efforts that have been going on in their districts.

For more information about District Days and these postcards, email HLHcerritos@gmail.com or call 562-281-LUNG (5864).

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Have you read this booklet, How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease? It sums up U.S. Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin’s 700+ page report on the dangers of cigarettes and smoking into 20 concise yet informative pages for the public at large. It includes facts about how secondhand smoke “causes immediate harm to nonsmokers who breathe it.” Click on the photo to obtain a copy of the booklet. Pictured above: 2010 Surgeon General’s Report Press Conference (by CDC Social Media)

Have you read this booklet, How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease? It sums up U.S. Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin’s 700+ page report on the dangers of cigarettes and smoking into 20 concise yet informative pages for the public at large. It includes facts about how secondhand smoke “causes immediate harm to nonsmokers who breathe it.” Click on the photo to obtain a copy of the booklet.

Pictured above: 2010 Surgeon General’s Report Press Conference (by CDC Social Media)