CDC-Data-2025/Going_Smokefree_Matters_Multiunit_Housing_Infographic_djvu.txt

MULTIUNIT HOUSING 


There is no safe amount of secondhand smoke exposure. 
The home is the main place many children and adults 


breathe in secondhand smoke.'? 


- About 80 million (1 in 4) people in the US live in 
multiunit housing, such as apartments, including about 
7 million living in government-subsidized housing.** 


What is government-subsidized housing? 
When the government helps people pay their rent. 
Public housing is one type of subsidized housing. 


- Each year, an estimated 28 million multiunit housing 
residents are exposed to secondhand smoke in their 
home or apartment that came from somewhere 
else in their building like a nearby apartment.*5 


- Every person living in multiunit housing deserves 
to breathe smokefree air. 


Approximately 1in 3 multiunit 
housing residents are covered by 
smokefree building policies.® 


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About 8 in 10 multiunit housing A majority of multiunit housing 
residents have chosen to make residents want smoke-free 
their own homes smokefree. building policies.5 


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Did You Know? 


Secondhand smoke can travel into an apartment from other 
apartments and common areas through doorways, cracks 
in walls, electrical lines, ventilation systems and plumbing.’ 


Opening windows and using fans does not completely remove 
secondhand smoke.’ 


Heating, air conditioning and ventilation systems cannot 
eliminate exposure to secondhand smoke. In fact, these systems 
can distribute secondhand smoke throughout a building. LAN 


ag What is secondhand smoke? 
It is the combination of smoke from the burning end of a cigarette Vin 


and the smoke breathed out by a smoker. 


When a person smokes near you, you can be exposed to 


secondhand smoke. 
The Surgeon General concluded: 
There is no safe level Cleaning the air and Secondhand smoke causes 
of secondhand ventilating buildings disease and early death in 
smoke exposure.’ cannot get rid of children and in adults who 
secondhand smoke: do not smoke: 


In the United States: 


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Approximately 58 million About 2 in 5 children (including 7 in The home is the main place 
(1 in 4) nonsmokers are 10 black children) are exposed to where children are exposed 
exposed to secondhand smoke.° secondhand smoke.” to secondhand smoke." 


Secondhand smoke exposure 
among adults can cause”: 


Secondhand smoke exposure among 
babies and children can cause’: 


- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) 
- Lung problems 


- Heart disease 
« Stroke 


- Ear infections - Lung Cancer 


|| « Asthma attacks 


Smokefree rules or policies: 


- Improve Air Quality » Reduce Secondhand Smoke Exposure » Reduce Smoking in Youth, 
- Improve Health - Receive Public Support Young Adults, and Adults 


Smokefree policies in multiunit housing can improve health and save money. 


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If all public housing in the United States was made smokefree, it would save $153 million each year, including 


$43 million in costs and $16 million in costs 


from cleaning from fires caused by 


apartments where smoking. 


people have smoked 


Savings would be even greater if all multiunit housing across the country went smokefree. 


To learn more about your state's smokefree policies, go to: www.cdc.gov/statesystem 


To learn more about the health consequences of smoking and secondhand smoke exposure go to: www.cdc.gov/tobacco 


REFERENCES 


1. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report 
of the Surgeon General—Executive Summary. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, Coordinating Center for Health Promotion, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 
Office on Smoking and Health, 2006. 


2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Vital signs: disparities in nonsmokers’ exposure to secondhand smoke — United 
States, 1999-2012. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2015;64 (04):103-108. 


3. King BA, Babb SD, Tynan MA, Gerzoff RB. National and state estimates of secondhand smoke infiltration among U.S. multiunit 
housing residents. Nicotine Tob Res. 2013;15 (7):1316-1321. 


4.U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Public Housing Agency Profiles available at: http://www.huduser.org/ 
DATASETS/pdrdatas.html. 


5. Andrea S. Licht, Brian A. King, Mark J. Travers, Cheryl Rivard, and Andrew J. Hyland. Attitudes, Experiences, and Acceptance of 
Smoke-Free Policies Among US Multiunit Housing Residents. American Journal of Public Health: October 2012, Vol. 102, No. 10, pp. 
1868-1871. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300717. 


6. Centers for Disease Control. Vital signs: nonsmokers’ exposure to secondhand smoke-United States, 1999-2008. MMWR Morb 
Mortal Wkly Rep. 2010;59 (35):1141-1146. 


7. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the 
Surgeon General. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2014. 


8. King BA, Peck RM, Babb SD. National and state cost savings associated with prohibiting smoking in subsidized and public housing 
in the United States. Prev Chronic Dis. 2014; 11:40222. 

9. Farrelly, M. Loomis, B, et. al. Are tobacco control policies effective in reducing young adult smoking? Journal of Adolescent Health 
54 (2014) 481-486