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Community Centers
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Apartments
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Community Centers
Entertainment Arenas
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Stores
Prison
Restaurant/Bars
Schools K-12
Work Sites
Community centers are by their nature open to a diverse group of people: children, families, religious organizations, sports clubs, art classes, etc. In order to meet the needs of the community, the center must provide a healthy area, a smoke-free zone, where nonsmokers and employees of the center are not exposed to secondhand smoke.
Steps for Success:
- Determine the decision-makers and the channels for decision-making for the community center; offer to meet with and provide these decision makers with information about secondhand smoke.
- Ensure that the center managers are aware of the Americans with Disabilities Act and how it may apply to visitors or employees.
- Provide a list of other community centers that have smoke-free policies.
- Give center managers copies of other facilities’ smoke-free policies.
- Perform an assessment of exposure inside and outside the facility.
- Prepare media advocacy materials for use if initial meetings are not successful in promoting policy change.
- Work with the community center to provide public education about the health effects of secondhand smoke.
