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Smoke-Free Housing Toolkit for Residents

Check out this toolkit compiling existing educational, "how-to" and resource brochures, pamphlets and other information designed to assist residents of public and assisted multi-family housing who want safer and healthier homes.

Check out this toolkit compiling existing educational, "how-to" and resource brochures, pamphlets and other information designed to assist residents of public and assisted multi-family housing who want safer and healthier homes.

See link to toolkit below.

Resources included in the kit:

  • Health effects of smoking
  • A synopsis of the Surgeon General's 2006 report of the harmful effects associated with exposure to secondhand smoke
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Steps residents can take toward going smoke free
  • A home pledge kit
  • HUD smoke-free housing Notices from the Offices of Public and Indian Housing and Multifamily Housing
  • A list of some Public Housing Authorities that have smoke-free policies
  • A list of resources for more information

Provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Lung Association, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

 

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Smoke-Free Housing Toolkit for Public Housing Authorities and Owners/Management Agents

Check out this toolkit compiling existing educational, "how-to" and resource brochures, pamphlets and other information designed to assist owners/management agents of public and assisted multi-family housing who want safer and healthier homes.

Check out this toolkit compiling existing educational, "how-to" and resource brochures, pamphlets and other information designed to assist owners/management agents of public and assisted multi-family housing who want safer and healthier homes.

See toolkit link below.

Resources included in the kit:

  • Reasons to explore smoke free housing
  • Health effects of smoking
  • A synopsis of the Surgeon General's 2006 report of the harmful effects associated with exposure to secondhand smoke
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Steps landlords can take toward going smoke free
  • A guide to no-smoking policies
  • A sample resident letter and second smoke survey
  • HUD smoke-free housing Notices from the Offices of Public and Indian Housing and Multifamily Housing
  • A list of some Public Housing Authorities that have smoke-free policies
  • A list of resources for more information

 

Provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Lung Association, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

 

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Asthma Quick Takes 2013 Volume 1 Issue 1

This is the first issue of the National Asthma Control Program’s (NACP) quarterly newsletter, Asthma Quick Takes. This newsletter includes recent important publications on asthma, relevant news, and program successes and challenges for those involved in public health interventions for asthma.

This is the first issue of the National Asthma Control Program's
(NACP) quarterly newsletter, Asthma Quick Takes! This newsletter includes
recent important publications on asthma, relevant news, and program
successes and challenges for those involved in public health interventions for asthma.

Asthma Quick Takes will be distributed through CDC's NACP AsthmaTalk listserv. If you
would like to receive the newsletter but do not want to be on the listserv, please send
an email to AsthmaQT@cdc.gov with your request. Feel free to share these
newsletters!

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