The purpose of this chapter is to protect the health and welfare by regulating smoking
in and around public housing within the city, which are exclusively multi-unit residences,
and to recognize the need to breathe clean air. Tobacco use causes death and disease
and continues to be an urgent public health threat. Nonsmokers who live in multi-unit
dwellings can be exposed to neighbors' secondhand smoke. Harmful residues from tobacco
smoke can be absorbed by and cling to virtually all indoor surfaces long after smoking
has stopped and then be emitted back into the air, making this "thirdhand smoke" a
potential health hazard. Smoking is the number one cause of fire deaths, is a leading
cause of fire-related injury, and contributes to fire-related health inequities. The
Surgeon General has concluded that eliminating smoking in indoor spaces is the only
way to fully protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke exposure and that separating
smokers from nonsmokers, cleaning the air, and ventilating buildings cannot completely
prevent secondhand smoke exposure. Smokefree multi-unit housing policies are the most
effective method to fully reduce secondhand smoke exposure in multi-unit housing.
Secondhand smoke in multi-unit housing is a significant threat to the health and safety
of children.
(Ord. No. 1164, § II, 9-16-15)
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