Smoke-Free Multi-Unit Housing: Changing the Landscape of Michigan & America
At the September 9, 2010 Fall Conference
of NAHRO-Michigan, SFELP's Jim Bergman gave a presentation titled Smoke-Free
Multi-Unit Housing: Changing the Landscape of Michigan & America. The presentation and the accompanying
PowerPoint provided information about the dramatic changes that have occurred
in the past decade in smoke-free housing nationally and in Michigan,
particularly related to public housing and other affordable housing. It
also presented information on how and why to go smoke-free and included many
slides of public housing and other affordable housing entities that have
smoke-free policies. You can view and download the PowerPoint
presentation by clicking above. You can also view and download a pdf
version by clicking here.
Smoke-Free Multi-Unit Housing in Michigan: 0 to 100,000s in 5 Years
On April 30, 2009 at a smoke-free housing meeting in
Quebec City, Quebec, SFELP Director Jim Bergman presented an overview of the
smoke-free multi-unit housing initiative in Michigan and other parts of the
United States. The presentation was a part of an all-day meeting sponsored by
the Non-Smokers' Rights Association of Canada (NSRA). Other speakers included
Francois Damphousse and Pippa Beck of NSRA, Karine Fournier, Esq., and Jack
Boomer of the Clean Air Coalition of British Columbia. Bergman's presentation described
the successes Michigan health partners have had in the past 5 years in
assisting apartment owners to adopt smoke-free policies for well over 100,000
rental units statewide. He also discussed how this was achieved and the
barriers that had to be overcome. To access the 45-slide PowerPoint he used,
click above.
Up
In Smoke: The Two Sides of Smoke-Free Housing
The National Association of Housing &
Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO) held their annual conference in San Antonio on
October 26-28, 2008. Former NAHRO President Jim Inglis of the Livonia
(Michigan) Housing Commission, and Elaine Wiseman of the Kearney (Nebraska)
Housing Authority, and Jim Bergman of the Smoke-Free Environments Law Project
spoke at a session on October 28th titled "Up in Smoke: The Two Sides of
Smoke-Free Housing". The session highlighted the reasons why almost 100
housing authorities around the nation have now adopted smoke-free policies for
all areas of some or all of their apartment buildings. To access a copy of Jim
Bergman's 56-slide PowerPoint NAHRO presentation, click above. If you simply
want to view the presentation in pdf format, with 6 slides per page, you can
access the pdf directly by clicking here.
Smoke-Free
Affordable Multi-Unit Housing Is Coming – Now!
On April 23, 2008 in Detroit, a national conference
was held titled Promising Practices From the Field: Tobacco Control
Strategies for Priority Populations. The
conference was hosted by the Health Education Council, the National Network on
Tobacco Prevention & Poverty (NNTPP), and the National African American
Tobacco Education Network (NAATEN). Jim Bergman, SFELP Director, presented a
session on smoke-free policies in affordable housing, i.e., housing for low and
moderate income persons. The session was was titled Smoke-Free Affordable
Multi-Unit Housing Is Coming - Now! and
included a 66-slide PowerPoint presentation. The presentation included slides
with national, socio-economic demographic information about the millions of
people living in renter-occupied dwellings. The slides also demonstrated that
the market for smoke-free housing is substantial among all socio-economic
groups. The presentation showed how the inertia in the multi-unit housing
market has now begun to change dramatically, and smoke-free policies are now
clearly a hot new amenity that many apartment companies and housing authorities
are adopting, including in public and private affordable housing. The major
reasons for adopting smoke-free policies are also discussed. Included in the
presentation are slides which have the company logo and photos of buildings of
large and small apartment companies in Michigan which have adopted smoke-free
policies for some or all their buildings, including many which are affordable
housing. These slides demonstrate
graphically that smoke-free multi-unit housing truly has come of age and that
it's happening among large and small apartment owners and housing authorities.
Included is a slide of Parkside Commons, a new market-rate apartment building
just outside Boston, Massachusetts, and a slide from the Sault Ste. Marie,
Michigan, Housing Commission, both of which prominently list smoke-free as an
amenity, demonstrating that they believe smoke-free policies are a significant
marketing advantage. You can access the 66-slide PowerPoint presentation
directly by clicking above. If you simply want to view the presentation in pdf
format, with 6 slides per page, you can access the pdf directly by clicking here.
Smoke-Free
Multi-Unit Housing Has Come Of Age
On April 15 & 16, 2008, SFELP Director Jim Bergman
was fortunate to be able to do hour-long presentations for the membership of
the Property Management Association of Western Michigan (PMAWM), of which SFELP
is a member. The presentation was titled Smoke-Free Multi-Unit Housing Has
Come of Age and included a 59-slide
PowerPoint presentation. The presentation was intended to provide information
to multi-unit housing owners/managers demonstrating that it's legal to adopt
smoke-free policies and that it makes economic sense, as well as discussing how
to transition to smoke-free buildings and why enforcement is not a problem.
Included are slides with demographic information showing that the market for
smoke-free housing is substantial among all socio-economic groups. The
presentation also showed how the inertia in the multi-unit housing market has
now begun to change dramatically, and smoke-free policies are now clearly a hot
new amenity that many apartment companies are adopting. Included in the
beginning of the presentation are 20 slides which each have the company logo
and photos of buildings of large and small apartment companies in Michigan
which have adopted smoke-free policies for some or all their buildings. These slides demonstrated graphically that smoke-free
multi-unit housing truly has come of age and that it's happening among large
and small apartment owners and that it's happening all over the state. The
slides also show that public housing commissions/authorities are adopting
smoke-free policies, as are other affordable housing companies. The 4th to the
last slide is also a great one because it's a slide from the web site for
Parkside Commons, a new apartment building just outside Boston, Massachusetts,
and this web page is touting the apartment building being a 100% smoke-free
environment, showing that they see this as a major amenity and selling point
for the residents they want to attract -- young, healthy and wealthy. You can
access the 59-slide PowerPoint presentation directly by clicking above. If you
simply want to view the presentation in pdf format, with 6 slides per page, you
can access the pdf directly by clicking here.
Feel free to download either of these and use and adapt them as you see fit.
Emerging
Issues: New Frontiers In Smoke-Free Air
On December 5, 2007, SFELP Director Jim Bergman gave a
presentation at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta to the Office on
Smoking and Health and their National Partners organizations. The presentation,
titled New Frontiers in Smoke-Free Air described some of the emerging issues in
the smoke-free environments arena. Among the topics covered were the following:
smoke-free multi-unit dwellings; smoke-free cars; smoke-free outside areas;
and, smoke-free long-term care facilities. The presentation demonstrated that,
in each of these arenas, there is much activity already and much more to come
in the next few years. To access the 35-slide PowerPoint presentation, click
above.
Smoke-Free
Multi-Unit Dwellings Are Coming To Ontario – How We're Going To Make It
Happen
On November 28, 2007, the Ontario Tobacco-Free Network
and the Council for a Tobacco-Free Toronto sponsored an all-day session titled
Second Hand Smoke In Multi-Unit Dwellings: A Day of Education, Discussion and
Planning in Toronto. The session
included a presentation by SFELP Director Jim Bergman which provided
demographic data on multi-unit dwellings in Toronto and Ontario, the
percentages of smoke-free households in various provinces, information on what
apartment owners can do about adopting smoke-free policies, and reasons for
adopting such policies. To access the 36-slide PowerPoint presentation, click
above. Scroll down to also see the presentations under the section titled
"Smoke-Free Multi-Unit Dwellings Sessions at Canadian National Conference
on Tobacco or Health: October, 2007 in Edmonton".
SMOKE-FREE
MULTI-UNIT HOUSING ANCILLARY MEETING; OCTOBER, 2007, IN MINNEAPOLIS
On October 23,
2007, prior to the opening of the National Conference on Tobacco or Health in
Minneapolis, the Minnesota Department of Health, the Live Smoke-Free housing
program of Minnesota, and the Smoke-Free Environments Law Project of Michigan
hosted the Smoke-Free Multi-Unit Housing Task Force Ancillary Meeting. This all-day meeting had a number of sessions on
topics related to initiatives in various U.S. states and Canadian provinces to
promote making smoke-free multi-unit housing the norm. Many, but not all, of
the sessions included PowerPoint presentations. Below, you may click on
PowerPoint presentations given at this meeting.
In addition,
immediately below is a smoke-free multi-unit housing presentation given as a
part of a Subplenary session at the National Conference on Tobacco or Health on
Emerging Opportunities to Reduce Exposure to Secondhand Smoke on October 25th; this presentation was given by SFELP
Director Jim Bergman.
Subplenary: Making Smoke-Free
Multi-Unit Dwellings the Norm in the U.S. Jim Bergman, J.D. For PowerPoint presentation, click here.
Greeting, goals, and introductions: Christina Thill (Minnesota Department of Health), Jim
Bergman (Smoke-Free Environments Law Project of Michigan), Brittany McFadden
(Live Smoke Free -- Minnesota), Carissa Duke (Live Smoke Free -- Minnesota)
For meeting agenda, in pdf format,
click here.
For Overview PowerPoint by
Brittany McFadden and Carissa Duke, click here.
Session: Is "nuisance law" a viable
approach to protect renters/condo owners? Should we be pushing for enactment of
laws making secondhand smoke a nuisance?
Kathleen Dachille, Esq (Maryland)
For PowerPoint presentation, click here.
Session: Two approaches to achieving smoke-free
multi-unit dwellings: voluntary and legislative. Is one preferable to the other?
Is there any consensus?
Robin Salsburg (California)
For a pdf version of the PowerPoint presentation, click here.
Tina Pettingill (Maine)
For PowerPoint presentation, click here.
Session: The Big Picture: What are the key
approaches that will make smoke-free multi-unit dwellings the norm as quickly
as possible?
Jim Bergman (Michigan)
For PowerPoint presentation, click here.
Kylie Meiner (Oregon)
For PowerPoint presentation, click here.
Joanne Wellman-Benson (California)
For PowerPoint presentation, click here.
Brittany McFadden (Minnesota)
For PowerPoint presentation, click here.
Session: Working with property management
companies and market-rate buildings.
Diane Laughter (Oregon) and Kylie Meiner (Oregon)
For PowerPoint presentation, click here.
Session: Working with public housing.
Jim Bergman (Michigan)
For PowerPoint presentation, click here.
Tina Pettingill (Maine) and Amy Olfene (Maine)
For PowerPoint presentation, click here.
Session: Media campaigns from Maine, Oregon, and
Ontario.
Amy Olfene (Maine) and Tina Pettingill (Maine)
For PowerPoint presentation, click here.
Colleen Hermann-Franzen (Oregon)
For PowerPoint presentation, click here.
Joanne DiNardo (Ontario)
For PowerPoint presentation, click here.
Session: Policy strategies for owner-occupied
units (condos and co-ops).
Esther Schiller (California)
For PowerPoint presentation, click here.
SMOKE-FREE
MULTI-UNIT DWELLINGS SESSIONS AT CANADIAN NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TOBACCO OR
HEALTH: OCTOBER, 2007, IN EDMONTON
On October 1-3,
2007 in Edmonton, Alberta, the 5th Canadian National Conference on Tobacco or
Health was held. For the first time, there were a number of sessions on
smoke-free multi-unit housing topics. The sessions related to initiatives in
the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia to promote smoke-free multi-unit
housing, as well as a session on the Michigan smoke-free apartments initiative
which might be considered for use in Canadian provinces. A number of the
sessions included PowerPoint presentations, which are now available online in
pdf format. Below, you may click on the presentations given at this meeting.
Session: Second-Hand Smoke in Multi-Unit
Dwellings: Change is in the Air
Pippa Beck, Non-Smokers' Rights Association
For pdf of the PowerPoint presentation, click here.
Session: Polling Ontarians on Second-Hand Smoke
in Multi-Unit Dwellings: In or Out?
Joanne Di Nardo, Ontario Tobacco-Free Network
For pdf of the PowerPoint presentation, click here.
Session: Engaging Landlords, Builders &
Managers in the Invasive Second-Hand Smoke Debate
Judy Myrvold, Council for a Tobacco-Free Toronto
For the PowerPoint presentation, click here.
Session: Secondhand Smoke in Multi-Unit
Dwellings: The B.C. Experience
Jack Boomer, Clean Air Coalition of British Columbia
For the PowerPoint presentation, click here.
Session: Making Smoke-Free Multi-Unit Housing
the Norm in Michigan
Jim Bergman, Smoke-Free Environments Law Project
For pdf of the PowerPoint presentation, click here.
Session: Protecting Workers from Smoke in Home
Environments
Karen McLean and Josie d'Avernas, Program Training & Consultation Centre,
Ontario
For pdf of the PowerPoint presentation, click here.
Making
Smoke-Free Multi-Unit Housing the Norm in Michigan – Rapidly!!!
On July 19, 2007, at the Tobacco-Free Michigan
quarterly meeting, SFELP Director Jim Bergman gave a presentation of the above
title. The presentation described the MI Smoke-Free Apartment Initiative and
its successes in 3 years of operation. Included in the presentation was a
detailed discussion of 5 reasons "Why Landlords Don't Adopt Smoke-Free
Policies?" and the ways in which the MI Smoke-Free Apartment Initiative
successfully addressed these barriers. The result of these successes is that,
in 3 years well over 10,000 units of smoke-free market-rate housing has been
created, well over 6,000 units of smoke-free "affordable" housing has
been created, 21 public housing commissions have adopted smoke-free policies,
most newspapers now allow classified ads which say "smoke-free" or
"no smoking", and some online apartment listings now have "no
smoking" as an amenity item. Demographic data is also provided which
demonstrates why smoke- free housing makes sense. While this presentation
describes the Michigan initiative, its content is equally applicable to other
states, and, if you substitute data from your own state, it's possible the
presentation could be adapted for your use in your state. To access the
40-slide PowerPoint presentation, click here. This PowerPoint
was done on a Mac computer and three slides are in QuickTime which many PC
computers can't read. Therefore, so that you can, at least, view these slides,
we have converted the entire PowerPoint into a pdf file which can be accessed
by clicking above.
Smoke-Free
Multi-Unit Housing Workshop: Minnesota
On April 30, 2007, the Tobacco Prevention &
Control Office of the Minnesota Department of Health and the Association for
Nonsmokers-Minnesota sponsored a Smoke-Free Multi-Unit Housing Workshop in St.
Paul. SFELP Director Jim Bergman was a featured presenter at the workshop. His
presentation included a wide range of topics including the following: data on
the numbers and percentages of smokers in Minnesota and of smoke-free homes, as
well as renter- occupied housing units, as facets of marketing smoke-free
apartment policies; the 5 reasons why landlords are hesitant about adopting
smoke-free policies, and how to address these issues; the health and fire
safety issues associated with smoking in apartments; the legal rights of
landlords to adopt smoke-free policies; legal liability issues facing landlords
who don't have smoke-free policies; costs of rehabilitating apartments lived in
by smokers; enforcement issues related to smoke-free policies; voluntary approaches
to gaining adoption of smoke-free apartment policies; legislative approaches
being tried to gain adoption of smoke-free policies; and the
MISmokeFreeApartment Initiative as an example of a successful voluntary
approach. To access and download the 75-slide PowerPoint presentation Mr.
Bergman used, click here.
This PowerPoint was done on a Mac computer and some slides are in QuickTime
which many PC computers can't read. Therefore, so that you can, at least, view
these slides, we have converted the entire PowerPoint into a pdf file which can
be accessed by clicking above.
Smoke-Free Multi-Unit Housing: The New Frontier for
Smoke-Free Air Initiatives
On March 5, 2007, at the States of Change Regional
Tobacco Control Conference in
Columbus, Ohio, SFELP Director Jim Bergman presented a session of the above
title. The address included a 66-slide PowerPoint presentation which covered
the following topics: The percentages of homes that are renter-occupied; Why
secondhand smoke in apartments is an important issue for smoke-free air
advocates; Why landlords should be concerned about smoking in their buildings;
Legal issues related to smoke-free apartment policies; The MISmokeFreeApartment
Initiative as an example of a voluntary approach to gain adoption of smoke-free
multi-unit housing policies; Examples of achievements of the
MISmokeFreeApartment Initiative in Michigan; Legislative approaches now being
used or considered to get smoke-free apartment policies adopted on a local or
statewide basis; and Resources available to assist you. To access and download
the PowerPoint presentation, click here. This
PowerPoint was done on a Mac computer and some slides are in QuickTime which
many PC computers can't read. Therefore, so that you can, at least, view these
slides, we have converted the entire PowerPoint into a pdf file which can be
accessed by clicking above.
Secondhand Smoke Litigation in Multi-Unit Housing
On October 27, 2006, SFELP Consulting Attorney Susan
Schoenmarklin gave a presentation of the above title at the Waiting to
Exhale? The Future of Tobacco Litigation conference in Columbus, Ohio. This PowerPoint presentation reviews the
current status of litigation involving victims of secondhand tobacco smoke
intrusions in their apartment or condominium units. It also provides background
information on the health risks of secondhand smoke and their relevance to such
litigation. To access the 43-slide PowerPoint presentation, click above.
Smoke-Free
Apartments: The New Frontier Is Here!
On September 16, 2005, SFELP Director Jim Bergman gave
a keynote presentation of the above title at the New York State Tobacco Use
Prevention & Control Annual Conference. The address included a 70-slide PowerPoint
presentation which covered the following issues: Why secondhand smoke in
apartments is an issue; Legal issues & smoke-free apartment policies;
Approaches now being used to get smoke-free apt policies adopted: voluntary
& legislative; The MISmokeFreeApartment initiative as an example of a
voluntary approach; Legislative approaches to consider locally and statewide;
and Resources available to assist you. To access and download the PowerPoint
presentation, click above.
Smoke-Free
Housing Commission Apartments: The Time Is Now
On September 8, 2005, SFELP Director Jim Bergman and
Cadillac (MI) Housing Commission Executive Director Dan Peterson gave a
presentation of the above title at the National Association of Housing &
Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO) - Michigan Chapter fall conference. The
presentation included a 40-slide PowerPoint. The presentation was particularly
focused on how public housing officials can go about adopting smoke-free
apartment policies in their buildings. Dan Peterson's housing commission did
that in July, 2005, making it the first housing commission in Michigan to do
so, and one of only about 10 in the nation. Included in the PowerPoint
presentation were the following topics: a description of the
MISmokeFreeApartment initiative; why secondhand smoke is an issue in public
housing; legal issues and smoke-free apartment policies; a listing of housing
commissions/authorities which have adopted smoke-free policies; specific steps
housing commissions/authorities can take in moving to adopt smoke-free
policies; and resources available to assist housing officials. [This
presentation will be given again on October 14, 2005 at the Michigan Housing
Directors Association annual conference.] To access the PowerPoint, click
above.
The
Michigan Smoke-Free Apartments Initiative
In July, 2004, SFELP unveiled a multi-faceted
smoke-free apartments initiative in Michigan whose purpose is to encourage and
assist apartment owners to adopt smoke-free apartment policies in their
buildings, as well as to inform tenants of their rights to live in smoke-free
apartments and assist them in working with their landlords to obtain smoke-free
apartments. The smoke-free apartment initiative utilizes a new web site called mismokefreeapartment.org
to provide a wealth of information
for both tenants and landlords. In addition, the initiative includes two radio
ads and 4 billboards to publicize the web site and the reasons for adopting
smoke-free apartment policies, as well as the legal right to do so. The
initiative also includes 4 postcards which will be mailed to landlords
informing them of this initiative. SFELP will also be conducting surveys in
various parts of Michigan to determine the current availability of smoke-free
apartments and will develop an online listing of smoke-free apartments throughout
the state. SFELP will be available to provide information and assistance to
landlords and tenants desiring smoke-free apartment buildings. To access the
mismokefreeapartment.org web site, click here. To access a 56-slide
PowerPoint presentation which describes this initiative, including showing the
billboards and postcards, click above. [NOTE: When you get to the PowerPoint
page, if you click on individual slides or on "Click to Start Here,"
you can view the slides, but a few of the slides -- particularly the billboards
and postcards -- may not show all of the images. However, if you click on
"Download presentation source," you will be able to view all the
images on all the slides.]
Presentation for Landlords or Others to Use to Make the
Transition to a Smoke-Free Apartment Policy
As a part of the mismokefreeapartment initiative described above, SFELP developed a PowerPoint
presentation for use by landlords (or others). We want to help landlords make
the transition to smoke-free living as smooth as possible. This presentation
can be used to help landlords announce their smoke-free intentions to tenants
and employees and to inform them of the very real risks secondhand smoke poses
to their health. Once they see the facts, they can see going smoke-free is a
win-win change for the better. To access the 29-slide presentation, you can go
to the mismokefreeapartment.org web page for the PowerPoint by clicking here or you
can go directly to the PowerPoint by clicking above.
"Drifting
Smoke: Apartments & Multi-Unit Residences"
This 19-slide PowerPoint presentation was prepared by
Randy Kline and Ed Bolen, staff attorneys with the Technical Assistance Legal
Center (TALC) in Oakland, California. The presentation reviews the legal issues
in addressing drifting secondhand smoke in apartments and other multi-unit
residences (while California law is referenced, the presentation is generally
applicable to all 50 states). The presentation reviews current legal remedies
and their limitations, as well as voluntary strategies. It then examines the
need for new policies to address these issues and sets forth potential
approaches. Two slides review legislation filed in California in 2003 to deal
with this, but which died in committee. It concludes with suggestions for
further consideration and the challenges in addressing these issues. This
presentation provides a foundation for considering and discussing
legal/legislative approaches to overcoming problems associated with drifting
secondhand smoke in apartments and other multi-unit residences. Click above to
access, download and adapt this presentation for your use.
POWERPOINT
PRESENTATIONS ON OTHER SMOKE-FREE ENVIRONMENTS ISSUES
Model
SFELP Countywide Smoke-Free Workplace & Public Places Regulation PowerPoint
Presentation
In 2002, SFELP developed a PowerPoint presentation for
use in Michigan counties at public hearings/meetings conducted by county health
departments when they were seeking citizen input on proposed smoke-free
regulations. The 20-slide presentation includes: 1) reasons for the
meeting/hearing; 2) detailed background information on secondhand smoke,
including health issues, toxins in secondhand smoke, key studies/reports on
secondhand smoke, etc.; 3) potential provisions of the countywide smoke-free
regulation; and 4) web sites to visit for more information. While the
PowerPoint presentation has a few slides specifically relevant to Michigan,
most of the slides will be useful in any state or locality. Click above to go
to the index page where you will find a brief description of all the slides and
will be able to view the slides (in viewing the slides, they may appear
slightly "grainy," but when you click on "Download presentation
source," they will be totally clear). (These slides are set up so that
users can insert the name of their own county or locality.) Feel free to
download and adapt this presentation as you wish for your own use; there is no
need to give attribution to SFELP.
Clean
Indoor Air is Good for Business" PowerPoint Presentation to Greater
Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce by ACS/New Mexicans Concerned About Tobacco
In October, 2002, the American Cancer Society/New
Mexicans Concerned About Tobacco gave a PowerPoint presentation to the Greater
Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce titled Clean Indoor Air is Good for
Business. This comprehensive 34-slide
presentation covered the following: tobacco use in NM; illness & death due
to tobacco use in NM; health effects of tobacco use; private sector costs due
to tobacco use; data on NMs with breathing problems; what is secondhand smoke;
cancer deaths due to secondhand smoke versus other causes of death; health
effects of secondhand smoke on workers, including bar and restaurant workers;
positive economic impacts of Clean Indoor Air policies; experiences of other
localities with Clean Indoor Air laws in AZ, AK, and CA, with graphs, charts,
etc.; results of consumer polls regarding Clean Indoor Air policies; smoke-free
policies mean more customers, less costs and more profits for business;
rights/choices issues; and "It's About Health. It's About Time."
Click above to access and download this presentation and adapt it for your use.
POWERPOINT
PRESENTATIONS ON SMOKE-FREE ENVIRONMENTS & TOBACCO ISSUES PERTAINING TO
OLDER PERSONS
Smoking
Policies in Long-Term Care & Residential Facilities Serving Older Persons
In October, 2003, Jim Bergman, J.D., Co-Director of
The Center for Social Gerontology (TCSG), gave presentations at the National
Aging & Law Conference and at the Annual Conference of the National
Citizens Coalition for Nursing Home Reform (NCCNHR) in Washington, D.C. on Smoking
Policies in Long-Term Care & Residential Facilities Serving Older Persons. This 36-slide presentation discussed: how all truth
passes through 3 stages, including concerning smoke-free policies; the health
dangers of secondhand smoke; sources of research on secondhand smoke; whether
smoke-free policies should be different in residential settings than in other
workplaces and public places; the fire dangers of smoking in long-term care and
elderly housing facilities; what federal and state laws – including the
Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Housing Act -- say about smoking
in nursing homes, assisted living facilities and apartments; what JCAHO
accreditation standards say about smoking in long-term care facilities; TCSG's
model smoking policies in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and
elderly housing; online resources for more information on this topic; and the
findings of TCSG's national survey of smoking policies in nursing homes and
assisted living facilities. Click above to access the presentation and adapt it
for your use.
Tobacco's
Impact on Senior Citizens
On August 27, 2003, Cliff Douglas -- President of the
Board of The Center for Social Gerontology (TCSG) and a consulting attorney for
TCSG's Smoke-Free Environments Law Project (as well as an internationally-known
authority on tobacco and secondhand smoke issues) -- gave a presentation titled
Tobacco's Impact on Seniors at a
conference sponsored by the Tobacco Reduction Action Coalition in Oakland
County, Michigan. The conference was titled "The Costs of Secondhand Smoke
to the Individual, Business and the Community." In this 55-slide
PowerPoint presentation, Cliff provided an excellent description of the health
consequences of smoking and secondhand smoke on older persons. The presentation
provides a wide assortment of slides and data, including some classic slides
such as the 7 tobacco company executives swearing before Congress that tobacco
is not addictive and the classic swimming pool slide demonstrating that
secondhand smoke does not stay within boundaries. Click above to access the
presentation and adapt it for your use.
POWERPOINT
PRESENTATIONS ON OTHER TOBACCO ISSUES
PowerPoint
Presentation by Ron Davis, MD: Tobacco Control: How Is Michigan Doing?
On July 25, 2003, Dr. Ron Davis, director of the
Center for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention at the Henry Ford Health
System in Detroit (and former Director of the CDC Office of Smoking and Health)
presented an excellent speech at the Tobacco-Free Michigan meeting in Lansing.
The speech included a 33-slide PowerPoint presentation which provided an
assessment of Michigan's tobacco control efforts, including on: smoke-free
policies; use of tobacco settlement funds and tobacco tax revenues for tobacco
prevention and cessation activities; adult and youth smoking rates; tobacco
taxes; and related issues. Dr. Davis utilized national and international data
and standards in his presentation to compare this to Michigan's performance. He
then "graded" Michigan's efforts as a way of providing a current status
report in order to assist in setting priorities for future tobacco control
efforts in the state. While this presentation focused on Michigan's
performance, the PowerPoint slides could be easily adapted for use in other
states by plugging in state-specific data in place of the Michigan data. Click
above to access and download this presentation and adapt it for your use.
[Note: There are 4 slides which have a title and then a black box; these slides
had video of TV ads in Dr. Davis' presentation, but we are not able to provide
the video clips through our web site.]
POWERPOINT
PRESENTATIONS ON WEB SITE OF THE TOBACCO CONTROL JOURNAL
The Tobacco
Control (TC) journal web site has a
number of fine PowerPoint presentations which are accessible for downloading
and utilizing. To go to the TC web site to access any of these presentations,
click here. Among the TC
site presentations are the following:
Tobacco Industry Academy Award Presentation, 13th
World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Washington DC July 2006
Anna White and Essential Action
New CalEPA report and Breast Cancer
Andrew Hyland, Stanton A Glantz
Tobacco Control Across Borders: Global Partners
Take Action in West Africa
Anna White
Tobacco Advertising in West Africa
Anna White
The Plight of Tobacco farmers in Nigeria
Anna White
Banning Retail Displays and Signage
Rob Cunningham
A Beginner's Guide to Tobacco Control on the Web
Stan Shatenstein
One of the darkest markets in the world
Stacy M Carter BAppSc MPH
Teenagers, smoking and transnational tobacco
corporations
Stacy M Carter BAppSc MPH
Tobacco Company Bar Promotions
K Michael Cummings PhD MPH
US Tobacco cigarettes marketing cigarettes outside
the United States
K Michael Cummings PhD MPH
History of the US Tobacco Institute and Tobacco
Industry Research Committee
K Michael Cummings PhD MPH
Why and how the tobacco industry sells cigarettes
to young adults
Pamela Ling, MD MPH Stanton A. Glantz, PhD
African American leadership groups: Smoking with
the enemy
Valerie B Yerger MA ND, Ruth E Malone RN Ph
Altria means tobacco: Philip Morris's identity
crisis
Elizabeth Smith PhD, Ruth Malone RN PhD
Smoke Free Movies
Stanton A Glantz PhD
Tobacco Product Regulation
Judy Wilkenfeld, Esq.
Economic Impact of Smoke-free Policies on
Restaurants and Bars
Andrew Hyland PhD
Marketing Tobacco to Women
Amanda Amos PhD
Technology, Policy, and the Future of Nicotine
Addiction
Kenneth E Warner PhD
Economics of Tobacco: Myths and Realities </b.
Kenneth E Warner PhD
Types and Uses of Tobacco Litigation
Tobacco Control Resource Center, Inc.
Civil Disobedience & Tobacco Control: BUGA UP
in Australia
Simon Chapman PhD
Youth Smoking: Can it be Prevented or Reduced?
Cheryl L Perry PhD, Jean L Forster PhD
Smoke-Free Environments Law Project
The Center for Social Gerontology
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