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National Resources

Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
Special expertise on public relations and evaluation.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Office on Smoking and Health offers an up-to-date, comprehensive toolkit for evaluating smokefree policies.

KIISS
Kids Involuntarily Inhaling Secondhand Smoke provides special expertise in smokefree restaurants and bars.
Smokefree Implementation Handbook for restaurants and bars

North American Quitline Consortium
Provides an online Policy Playbook for integrating cessation into smokefree implementation.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Smokefree Implementation Toolkit
A comprehensive toolkit for implementing smokefree laws developed by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights, and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.  Includes a detailed timeline for implementation planning, advertising and PR templates, and business outreach materials.

Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium
Provides assistance to national, state or community-based organizations in building and developing highly effective tobacco control programs.

Tobacco Control Network
Is comprised of the tobacco control program managers and additional staff from each state, territory, and D.C. This wide representation allows the network to access a wealth of expertise and experience from across the country.

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State and Local Resources

Arizona

Arizona Rulemaking Manual

Office of Administrative Counsel and Rules

Colorado

Smokefree Colorado
This website offers a wide range of excellent brochures, fact sheets, and media materials. 

Illinois

American Lung Association of Illinois
Provides implementation advertisements, signage, and a brochure.

Iowa

Iowa Department of Public Health

Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky Department of Public Health and Wellness
Online toolkit with guidelines, brochures, signage and decals used to implement Louisville’s smokefree ordinance in July 2007.

Massachusetts

Department of Public Health
Media materials, fact sheets, tips and information about enforcement for employers and the general public.

Minnesota

ClearWay Minnesota 
A Toolkit for Implementing and Defending Smokefree Ordinances, January 2007 (updated). A comprehensive toolkit covering enforcement, public opinion polling, economic impact, indoor air quality and smoking cessation.

Minnesota Rulemaking Manual

Nebraska

Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services

New Jersey

New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
Smokefree rules and rulemaking: Guidelines and Rulemaking forms.
Smokefree air rules

New Jersey GASP
New Jersey Smokefree Act
Implementing regulations, landlord information, signage, and enforcement tools.

New Mexico

Smoke Free New Mexico

New York

Implementation website
Examples of Q&A for the public, employers, and bar/restaurant owners and information tailored to those enforcing the law.

New York State Department of Health
Implementation Guidance.

Pennsylvania

Smokefree Philadelphia

Rhode Island

Rhode Island Tobacco Control Program
Resources including signs and media materials, guides for businesses and workplaces and complaint forms.

Washington

Smoke Free Washington
Comprehensive smokefree implementation website.

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Legal Issues

ANR, Legal Challenges to Smokefree Indoor Air Ordinances

Technical Assistance Legal Center

Tobacco Control Legal Consortium

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Economic Impact

ANR, Business Costs in Smoke-Filled Environments

ANR, Chambers of Commerce Support for Smokefree Air

ANR, Economic Impact of Smokefree Ordinances

Smokefree Colorado
Clean Indoor Air Act Economic impact brochures in English and Spanish.

TobaccoScam Economics Resource Library

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Brochures and Fact Sheets

A Guide to the New York State Clean Indoor Air Act

Delaware
Clean Indoor Air Act brochure (for Workplaces)

Smokefree Colorado Resources
Numerous brochures and other educational materials, in English and Spanish and Fact sheets in 13 languages, including Cambodian, Hindi, Hmong, Chinese, Japanese, Tagalog, and Thai.

Smokefree Illinois

Smokefree Philadelphia
Smokefree law fact sheets in nine languages: English, Albanian, Arabic, French, Khmer, Malayalam, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese.

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Smokefree Signage

Rhode Island
Portuguese smoking signage, window stickers for businesses and vehicles and Memo for smokefree workplace policy.

Smokefree Colorado
Smokefree casino materials.

Smokefree Illinois

Smokefree Philadelphia
Smoking and No Smoking signs in English and Spanish.

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Advertising and Media Advocacy

ANR’s Web page
Smokefree implementation and “Thank You” advertisements from across the country.  ANR also has samples of other types of Smokefree ads, organized by subject (e.g. “Anniversary” or “Smokefree Venues”) and by state.

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
Webpage of print advertisements.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Smoke-Free New Jersey implementation media campaign.

Smokefree Colorado
Implementation press releases and two-year anniversary timeline videos.

Smokefree Illinois
Signage and Business Kit items.

Smokefree Philadelphia
Print advertisements, bus sides, and a radio ad.

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Apartments and Condominiums

2006 Surgeon General's Report: Secondhand Smoke Exposure in the Home

The Center for Social Gerontology Smoke-Free Environmental Law Project
Analysis of the Voluntary and Legal Options of Condominium Owners Confronted with Secondhand Smoke from another Condominium Unit

Tobacco Control Legal Consortium
Legal Options for Condominium Owners Exposed to Secondhand Smoke (2006)
Infiltration of Secondhand Smoke into Condominiums, Apartments and Other Multi-Unit Dwellings (2004)

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Tobacco Industry

ANR What to Expect from the Tobacco Industry

TobaccoScam

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References

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights. (2004).
Protect Local Control; Resources. Retrieved Oct. 2, 2008.

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights. (2004).
Smokefree Air and Youth. Retrieved Oct. 2, 2008.

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, & Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (2007).
Smokefree Implementation Toolkit, The Economic Impact of Smokefree Laws. Retrieved Oct. 2, 2008.

American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation. (2008).
States with Preemption of Smokefree Air Laws. Retrieved October 2, 2008.

Eisner, M.D., Smith, A.K., Blanc, P.D. (1998).
Bartenders' respiratory health after establishment of smokefree bars and taverns.
Journal of the American Medical Association. 280, 1909-1914.

Givel, M., Spyvak, A. (2008).
Public Management and the Public Good: The Case of Oklahoma's 2002 Secondhand Tobacco Smoke Rules. Politics & Policy. 36, 420-447.

Heiss, C, Amabile, N, et al. (2008).
Brief Secondhand Smoke Exposure Depresses Endothelial Progenitor Cells Activity and Endothelial Function: Sustained Vascular Injury and Blunted Nitric Oxide Production.
J Am Coll Cardiol, 51. Retrieved Oct. 2, 2008.

Massachusetts Department of Public Health. (2005).
Laying a Solid Foundation: Tobacco Laws Pertaining to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved Oct. 2, 2008.

Minnesota Department of Health. (2008).
Minnesota Rulemaking Manual. Retrieved Oct. 2, 2008.

State of New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services. (2006).
Smoke-Free Air Act Initiative. Retrieved Oct. 2, 2008.

Office on Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2006).
Fact Sheet: Smoke-free Polices Reduce Smoking. Retrieved Oct. 2, 2008.

National Cancer Institute, US Department of Health and Human Services,
Pertschuk, M. (ed.). (1993)
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Major Local Tobacco Control Ordinances in the United States. Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph (Monograph 3). Retrieved October 2, 2008.

Repace, J. (2004).
Respirable particles and carcinogens in the air of Delaware hospitality venues before and after a smoking ban. J Occup Environ Med. 46, 887-905.

Sargent. R.P., Shepard, R.M., Glantz, S.A. (2004).
Reduced incidence of admissions for myocardial infarction associated with public smoking ban: before and after study. BMJ 328, 977 - 980.

Scollo, M., Lal, A., Hyland, A., Glantz, S.A. (2003).
Review of the quality of studies on the economic effects of smokefree policies on the hospitality industry. Tobacco Control. 12,13-20.

State Agency Rulewriters Consortium. (1995).
Arizona Rulemaking Manual. Retrieved Oct. 2, 2008.

Tobacco Control Legal Consortium. (2008).
There is No Constitutional Right to Smoke: 2008. Retrieved Oct. 2, 2008.

Travers, M.J., Cummings, K.M., Hyland, A., Repace, J., Babb, S., Pechacek, T., Caraballo, R. (2003).
Indoor air quality in hospitality venues before and after implementation of a clean indoor air law - Western New York. MMWR . 53,1038-1041.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2006).
2006 Surgeon General's Report - The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke. Retrieved Oct. 2, 2008.

Wasserman, J., et al. (1991).
The effects of excise taxes and regulations on cigarette smoking.
Journal of Health Economics. 10: 43-64.

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