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 FEB. 11, 2007
California City May Soon require Smoke-Free Housing
California may soon become the first U.S. state to require a specific percentage of both private and public condominium and apartment buildings and complexes to be smoke-free.


This effort is being led by the elderly. Many of these citizens worry about the health risks that are associated with second-hand smoke along with the increased potential for fires.

The director of the Smoke-Free Environments Law Project is Jim Bergman. He notes that one dozen of the state of Michigan's public housing commissions have previously made smoking illegal within the multi-unit buildings that they own. He also adds that many municipalities around the nation are paying close attention to the type of law that is eventually passed in the city of Belmont in order to help guide them in the drafting of their own laws.

Currently, smokers are not covered under any state or federal discrimination laws; this makes it an easier process for smoke-free policy and law to be enacted upon.

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