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Secondhand smoke in Apartments in
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July 10, 2015
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3/17/15

Smokefree housing: Berkeley scores a win for public health and citizens’ wallets

Berkeleyside.com Up to 65% of the air in a multiunit home can be shared with neighboring units. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) “Healthy Homes Manual: Smoke-Free Policies in Multiunit Housing:”
12/5/13 Berkeley moves forward with ordinance to ban smoking in multiunit housing The Daily Californian On Tuesday, Berkeley City Council unanimously approved the first of two readings of an ordinance that would ban cigarette smoking in all multiunit housing in Berkeley.
12/5/13 Berkeley bans tobacco smoking in apartments, condos Berkeleyside.com Smoking cigarettes will no longer be allowed inside the units of multi-family housing developments in Berkeley, effective May 2014, after a unanimous vote by the Berkeley City Council on Tuesday night.
11/18/13 Secondhand smoke gets in your rights SFGate.com Councilwoman Susan Wengraf, who supports an ordinance to ban smoking in multiunit dwellings, is appalled.
10/7/13 Flawed Logic – The Tobacco Industry’s Legacy The Berkeley Daily Planet Councilmember Jesse Arreguin is scrambling to justify voting against strong, protective secondhand smoke regulations in multi-unit housing to save thousands in Berkeley from serious toxic exposure. His logic is flawed.
10/4/13 Why I Voted No on Second Hand Smoke Ordinance The Berkeley Daily Planet I just want to respond to Carol Denney’s recent commentary “Berkeley Boots Smoke Out of Multi-Unit Housing” to explain the reasons why I didn't support the motion a majority of the Berkeley City Council approved on Tuesday, to ask the City Manager to come back with an ordinance that enforces a smoking ban as a public nuisance.
10/2/13 Berkeley Boots Smoke Out of Multi-Unit Housing The Berkeley Daily Planet The Berkeley City Council mustered five votes to protect tenants in multi-unit housing from their neighbors’ secondhand smoke at the October 1, 2013 city council meeting.
Berkeley City Council votes to amend proposed smoking ban The Daily Californian Berkeley City Council may implement a smoking ban in multiple-unit housing in March of next year.
10/1/13 Tobacco Free Multi-Unit Housing: Amending Berkeley Municipal Code Chapter 12.70
Office of the City Manager Adopt first reading of an Ordinance amending Berkeley Municipal Code Chapter 12.70 to make tobacco smoking, which exposes neighbors to secondhand smoke in all multiunit residences in the City, subject to private right of action; to require that all new leases include a non-smoking clause; to require offering voluntary non-smoking lease addenda to all existing leases; and to permit any tenant who is involuntarily exposed to tobacco smoke to terminate his or her lease without penalty if the landlord fails to include or enforce the non-smoking clause.
8/1/13 Berkeley Rent Board is Only Opposition to State Law Protecting Tenants from Secondhand Smoke The Berkeley Daily Planet Berkeley’s Rent Stabilization Board moved quickly in the weeks before the January 1, 2012 enactment of SB332 to unilaterally re-word Rent Control legislation in an effort to preclude tenant protection from secondhand smoke (see enclosed Proposed Regulation 1313).
6/10/13 Smoke-free zone The Daily Californian The ordinance has an important goal but brings up some serious concerns.
5/29/13 City Council considers law prohibiting smoking in all Berkeley apartments The Daily Californian At its Tuesday meeting, Berkeley City Council discussed a proposed smoke-free ordinance that would ban smoking in the city’s apartments and communal houses.
5/8/13 Berkeley Eyes Anti-Tobacco Law in Multi-Unit Housing Berkeley Patch Berkeley could become the first rent-control city in the nation to ban secondhand tobacco smoke in all multi-unit housing if the City Council adopts an anti-tobacco ordinance that's on the May 7 council agenda, according to city staff.
5/3/13 All Indoor Smoking in Shared Housing Should Be Banned in Berkeley The Berkeley Daily Planet You’re about to get a smokefree housing proposal, possibly more than one competing proposal, in a nearly ten year effort to protect more people in apartments and condominiums from secondhand smoke.
3/2/13 Big Tobacco’s Unlikely Allies in the Effort to Keep the Poor Hooked on Cigarettes The Berkeley Daily Planet Imagine a committee meeting where California legislators gather to consider AB746, Congressional Representative Marc Levine’s proposal to protect people in multi-unit housing from secondhand smoke.
2/23/13 Berkeley Says No to Clean Air The Berkeley Daily Planet Protecting all tenants in new housing may not protect those who don’t live there, but it protects the tenants who do live there!
10/17/12 Tell Your Rent Board This Friday You Need to Breathe Clean Air The Berkeley Daily Planet Tired of breathing your neighbor’s secondhand smoke?
01/2012 State law allowing changes in smoking policy largely inapplicable in Berkeley. Rent Stabilization Board Thus, although a landlord and a tenant may agree to a smoking prohibition on the premises, the tenant is not required to accept such a ban where none existed before.

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