Living Healthy on the East Side

Taking Care of Others

To really stamp out the unhealthy effects of tobacco use, we all need to do more than take care of ourselves and our own friends and families.

Second hand smoke has real health effects, like causing an infant to have an asthma attack, that can be brought on even by a brief exposure outdoors.

In housing complexes, smoke often seeps through all the units. That’s why people are talking about ideas like no smoking in outdoor areas at restaurants or having tobacco free housing complexes. 

Many experts believe policies like these are the best way to help clear the air for the whole community.

I’m not saying what you should decide and there are surely two sides to argument about whether more rules about tobacco free places are the right way to go. But it’s surely worth talking about!

We hope you will join us in the effort to get people talking about ways we can reduce exposure to second-hand smoke such as:

□ Making sure people don’t smoke around children indoors or outdoors

□ Having smoke free homes and housing complexes

Please enter and post a comment to let us know that you will participate in this dialogue by sharing what you will talk about with others and who you will talk to (not by actual name but rather by title, such as friend, co-worker, apartment manager, restaurant owner, etc.).  Also, tell us what action you would like to see taken to reduce exposure to second hand smoke.