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Our goal: To increase the number of apartments and condos that provide smoke-free living environments for their tenants.
Download the Smoke-Free Multi-Unit Housing Brochure.
Why go smoke-free?
There is no known safe level of exposure to SHS (2006, 2010 U.S. Surgeon Generals Report).
Apartment Managers and Owners:
Smoke-Free Housing is good for business, good for health because it reduces maintenance costs, decreases fire hazards, and increases tenant satisfaction.
• Smoking causes 9% of apartment fires, with an average of over $20,000 per fire incident.
• One study by the Smoke-Free Environments Law Project found that the cost of switching out nonsmoker tenants was around $558, while the cost to switchout heavy smoker tenants was up to seven times higher at $3,509.
• There is no constitutional right to smoke. Legal cases rule in favor of nonsmoking tenants and condominium owners.
• Florida’s 2003 Clean Indoor Air Act (FCIAA) prohibits smoking in an enclosed indoor workplace.
Current or Prospective Tenants: Protect your children from secondhand smoke.
Secondhand smoke can seep through lighting fixtures, cracks in walls, around plumbing, under doors, through shared ventilation, as well as permeate building materials, and then enter adjoining units.
• More than 3 million children aged 6 and under are exposed to secondhand smoke on a regular basis at home.
• Secondhand smoke causes ear infections, aggravation of asthma, lower respiratory tract infections (pneumonia and bronchitis) respiratory symptoms, lung cancer in children as well as increases lung cancer risk in adults; doubles the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.
• Secondhand smoke is a known Class A human carcinogen (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency).
• There is no constitutional right to smoke. Legal cases rule in favor of nonsmoking tenants and condominium owners.