Smoking Information and Education

Information for Non-smokers:
What's in cigarette smoke?
Secondhand smoke
Making my home and car smokefree
How can I help my friends and family quit? 

Information for smokers:
The health benefits of quitting smoking
Why do I smoke?
Stress
Quit without gaining weight
Secondhand smoke and SIDS-What I need to know
Diabetes and smoking
Taking control of cravings and urges
Positive thinking
San Mateo County Cessation Services

The California Smokers’ Helpline website has information about quitting.  http://www.californiasmokershelpline.org/

Re-learn life without cigarettes
http://www.becomeanex.org/

 Signs, sticker and decals for individuals, schools and businesses:
http://www.tobaccofreecatalog.org/Category.aspx?id=8

WEBSITE Links:

Free brochures promoting the California Smokers’ Helpline can be viewed and ordered at http://www.californiasmokershelpline.org/Order.php

Tobacco Education Clearinghouse of California
http://www.tobaccofreecatalog.org/

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) in January 2006 declared environmental tobacco smoke (another term for secondhand smoke) a toxic air contaminant.  Here are some of the documents associated with that declaration:
Press Release:  http://www.arb.ca.gov/newsrel/nr012606.htm
Fact Sheet: http://www.arb.ca.gov/toxics/ets/factsheetets.pdf

Protecting Multi-Family Housing, Apartments and Condos from SECOND HAND SMOKE
http://www.respect-ala.org/drift.htm

California Apartment Association Smoking Addendum Form 
Form 34.0 - This form permits property owners to designate
non-smoking areas on the property.

UNITS- Clearing the Air
Industry Discusses Trend Toward Smoke-Free Housing

Prohibit Smoking in Rental Housing
How Landlords Can Prohibit Smoking in Rental Housing 

 How Disability Laws Can Help
Help Tenants Suffering from Drifting Tobacco Smoke

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