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Promoting Smoke-Free
Apartments and Hospital Grounds
March 6, 2006 from 2:30-3:30pm (Eastern Time)
Policy Conference Call
Organized by the Tobacco Control Network (TCN)
This conference call will provide an opportunity
to learn about best practices in the promotion of smoke-free
apartments/condos and hospital grounds.
Due to the adverse health effects of environmental tobacco
smoke (ETS), the seepage of ETS from one apartment or condominium
to another has become of concern to both residents and landlords
and a cause for several recent lawsuits. This call will feature
methods of addressing such problems and relevant legal issues
and theories.
Any hospital accredited by The Joint Commission on Accreditation
of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) must be smoke-free indoors,
but there is a new trend of hospitals and health care systems
going completely smoke-free on their grounds in order to promote
a healthier environment. On this call, we will discuss tips
and resources for implementing a successful smoke-free grounds
policy, as well as the integration of such a policy with cessation
resources for patients and staff.
- Welcome
Jessica Lowy, TTAC
- Introductions
Mikelle Robinson, Tobacco Program Manager, Michigan Department
of Community Health
- Smoke-Free
Multi-Unit Dwellings and Condominiums
Jim Bergman, JD – Director of the Smoke Free Environments
Law Project, Center for Social Gerontology
(Note: The pictures on some of these
slides were created with a Macintosh computer and will not
be visible to those using a PC.)
- Questions/Resource Sharing
- Smoke-Free
Hospital Grounds
Linda Thomas, MS, LLP – University of Michigan
Health System Tobacco Consultation Service
- Questions/Resource Sharing
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