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There has been growing concern about the impact of secondhand smoke exposure on people who live in multiunit housing settings, such as apartment complexes, duplexes, condominiums, and public housing facilities, such as housing authorities and subsidized housing. Secondhand smoke from one unit in a multiunit housing complex can seep into an adjoining unit through shared air spaces or shared ventilation systems. New Hampshire law protects residents from exposure to secondhand smoke in most workplaces, however, it does not protect people from exposure in their multiunit homes. Breathe New Hampshire has joined with other organizations around the state to begin educating landlords and property managers with the goal of having them implement voluntary no-smoking policies. Maintaining smoke free housing units is legal, economical, popular with most tenants, and healthy! This section of our website presents information for landlords and tenants, sample documents to use if you are setting up your own smoke free policy, and a registry of smoke free housing units that will help people, who want to live in a smoke free complex, identify their choices.
BNH is working with EastPoint Properties, which owns and manages public housing complexes in New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, and Massachusetts, to assist tenants with a new policy. Effective September 1, 2010, all of EastPoint properties' public housing complexes will be going entirely smoke free, including the 1,646 individual units. Read more about this initiative here.
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In partnership with the NH Tobacco Prevention and Control Program (TPCP), Cheshire Hospital, and NH Asthma Program, Breathe New Hampshire unofficially launched a new initiative, the Breathe Better In Healthy Homes Campaign at a community forum at Railroad Square Senior Housing, a Southwestern Community Services facility in Keene. Read more here.
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