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Secondhand smoke in Apartments in
Minnesota, United States
October 26, 2016
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Owatonna
Red Wing
Rice County

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St. James
Winnebego

Albert Lee

1/19/12 Secondhand smokers Alberta Lee Tribune Mary Anderson used to reside in an apartment in Albert Lea without the smell of cigarette smoke.

Duluth

11/24/12 Health Notes: Quitter feels like a winner after kicking tobacco habit Duluth News Tribune “How can you stop smoking in a place that you can smoke?”

Four Corners

6/14/13 Four Corners Partnership Conducting Survey on Availability of Smoke-Free Housing Northfield Patch The Four Corners Partnership is conducting a local survey about housing as part of the Partnership’s new effort to organize a Coalition for Smoke-Free Housing.

Hutchinson

12/2/15 Editorial: Smoke-free apartment living Hutchinson Leader Fortunately for those who live in Hutchinson’s sole public housing building, the transition to a smoke-free policy has already happened.

Lakefield

5/23/15 New billboards raise important issue Lakefield Standard Now it’s time to turn our attention to our homes. Single-family homes and apartment buildings should all be smoke-free, for the health of our children.

Lonsdale

1/2/14 Lonsdale Apartment Goes Smoke-Free Northfield Patch Southside Apartments in Lonsdale enacted a new policy as of Jan. 1, according to a Rice County Public Health press release.

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Minneapolis

11/13/15

Proposed Change Would Protect 760,000 Children from Secondhand Smoke

PR Newswire This is important because across the nation, more than three-quarters of a million of our country's most vulnerable children are subjected to secondhand smoke in public housing facilities.
1/28/15 School leaders seek to expand smoke-free plan Minnesota Daily The University’s Office for Off-Campus Living is partnering with the Minneapolis Health Department and Live Smoke Free to ask landlords in the area to update their leases to include a smoke-free policy.
5/18/12 Protecting nonsmokers is the goal Minneapolis Star Tribune The Minneapolis Public Housing Authority Board of Commissioners' strategic plan, approved in 2012, included making housing overseen by the agency smoke-free within the next five years.
5/8/12 Editorial: Lean smoke-free in public housing Minneapolis Star Tribune To help bring down smoking rates, the housing authority is wisely working with the city's health department to provide cessation programs for residents of public housing.
4/28/12 For Mpls. public housing, a smoking ban Minneapolis Star Tribune The Minneapolis Public Housing Authority is going smoke-free in its 5,000 units.

Northfield

10/30/15

Northfield's Jefferson Square preps for smoke-free implementation on Jan. 1 Northfieldnews.com

And those changes are likely to continue across the nation as the federal government looks to encourage smoke-free policies in public housing.
6/24/14 Four Corners Partnership sponsors "Spot the Ad" contest Northfield News The Four Corners Partnership is using outdoor advertising to draw attention to their work with area landlords to reduce exposure to secondhand smoke.

Owatonna

10/21/14

Free Workshop for Area Landlords Owatonna Peoples Press The workshop will include
presentations by the director of the Live Smoke Free Program and an attorney from the Public Health Law Center at William Mitchell College of Law.

Red Wing

5/6/16 Rental sites continue to go smoke free

Republican Eagle The coalition of public health departments in Goodhue, Dodge, Rice and Steele counties assisted with implementing smoking bans in 28 multi-unit buildings from Feb. 1, 2015, to Jan. 31, 2016, the report states. Of the 267 units covered by the bans, 254 are for low-income renters.
4/9/15

More rentals go smoke free

Red Wing Republican Eagle Owners of multi-unit rental properties continued to implement smoke-free rules last year, surpassing expectations of a local anti-tobacco group that has been promoting the benefits of such policies to landlords and renters.
12/24/14

Rental sites go smoke-free Republican Eagle (Full story requires log in) Carol Quenemoen, on-site manager with Eagle Ridge Apartments and Pheasant Run Townhomes, holds a certificate from Four Corners Partnership recognizing the property’s decision to ban smoking.

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Rice County

12/31/14 Rice County townhome complex to go smoke-free Northfield News “This is just another step in our efforts to make our rental properties safe and healthy for all residents,” said Lerry Martin, on-site manager for Northern Oaks, which consists of eight units.
11/5/14 Rice County area landlords learn about smoke-free policy Faribault Daily News Kara Skahen, program director for Live Smoke Free, has seen smoke-free policies spread across the state. In 2007 when the Live Smoke Free program first began, they were aware of 50 smoke-free apartments in the state. Currently, she is aware of 1,400 in Minnesota.
10/24/14

Rice County landlords to ponder smoke-free policy

Faribault Daily News Those are just some of the benefits that building managers and landlords will hear during a smoke-free workshop next month.

St. Cloud

St. James

1/6/13 Apartment Complex in St. James Goes Tobacco Free in April KEYC-TV Fox 12 News The St. James Housing Authority at Park Apartments has decided to regulate the use of tobacco products within their properties to ensure the health and safety.

Winnebego

5/6/13 Apartments go smoke-free Fairmont Sentinel On May 15, Garden Court Apartments in Winnebago, a Thies and Talle Management property, will celebrate the implementation of its smoke-free housing policy.

"But now God has shown us a different way to heaven - not by "being good enough" and trying to keep his laws, but by a new way (though not new, really, for the Scriptures told about it long ago). Now God says he will accept and acquit us - declare us "not guilty" - if we trust Jesus Christ to take away our sins. And we all can be saved in this same way, by coming to Christ, no matter who we are or what we have been like. Yes, all have sinned; all fall short of God's glorious ideal; yet now God declares us "not guilty" of offending him if we trust in Jesus Christ, who in his kindness freely takes away our sins." Romans 3:21-24 Living Bible