Welcome to the Smoke-Free Cities Resource Hub, a dedicated space designed to support your city government in building healthier, stronger communities.
This page is exclusively available to cities who are committed to advancing comprehensive smoke-free policies.
Here, you’ll find ready-to-use materials to guide your city’s journey, from understanding the health and economic benefits of smoke-free environments to navigating legal frameworks. Whether your city is in the early planning stages or advancing implementation, the Resource Hub is designed to help you move from vision to action.
This hub provides practical tools, webinars, legal templates, and evidence-based resources to help cities move toward comprehensive smoke-free policies. By bringing together proven strategies, global best practices and legal guidance, we aim to make it easier for cities to take bold, effective action.
Research Materials
The Future of a Smoke-Free City
Comprehensive smoke-free laws have been adopted at the national, state/ provincial, and local levels around the world to protect everyone’s right to breathe clean air in all workplaces and public places.
Health Harms of Secondhand Smoke
Secondhand smoke contains a complex and toxic mixture of more than 7,000 chemicals, including about 70 known carcinogens. There is no known safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke.
Smoke-Free Laws Benefit Businesses
Evidence shows that smoke-free laws benefit health without harming business and in fact produce many economic benefits.
Smoke-Free Laws Improve Health & Save Lives
Comprehensive smoke-free laws improve public health by reducing workers’ and the public’s exposure to toxic SHS, encouraging and helping smokers to quit, and discouraging youth from taking up smoking.
Smoke-Free Laws Reduce the Economic Burden on Individuals and Businesses
Secondhand smoke exposure causes disease and death, raises individual and business costs, and weakens the economy. Comprehensive smokefree laws are the cheapest, fairest, and most effective way to protect workers and the public, reduce business expenses, and strengthen the economy.
Legal Materials
Framework for Smoke-Free Legal Measures
This resource provides a framework for assessing your smoke-free legal measures to ensure that they reflect legal obligations and global best practices consistent with the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) its implementation guidelines, and decisions adopted by the Convention’s governing body, the Conference of the Parties (COP).
Gap Analysis
This resource is designed to assist a reviewer in evaluating smoke-free legal measures to ensure that they reflect legal obligations and global best practices. It should be read in conjunction with Smoke-Free Cities: Framework for Smoke-Free Legal Measures.
Template for a Smoke-Free Environments Ordinance
This resource provides a template for municipalities interested in drafting legal measures to create smoke-free environments that are consistent with legal obligations and global best practices established under the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), its implementation guidelines, and decisions adopted by the Convention’s governing body, the Conference of the Parties (COP).
Additional Materials
Air Quality Monitoring: How to Get Started & How We Can Help
Air quality monitoring (AQM) studies are useful tools for monitoring harmful pollution from secondhand smoke. This document provides an overview of AQM studies and suggests ways to best utilize this research for smoke-free campaigns.
Smoke-Free Laws: Effective Messages
Our most effective message in support of smoke-free laws in all indoor workplaces and public places, including bars, restaurants, public transportation, etc., is simple: Everyone has the right to breathe clean air in public places and at work because secondhand smoke causes serious health problems like heart disease, cancer, and others.
Assessing Compliance With Smoke-Free Laws
This guide promotes best practice in assessing compliance with smoke-free laws. It will be of interest to a range of audiences interested in this topic, including public health advocates, government officials, and researchers.
Smoke-Free Policies: Protecting Everyone's Right to Breathe Clean Air
Presentation detailing the health harms caused by secondhand smoke and and evidence that comprehensive smoke-free laws work to save lives and health care dollars and are good for business as well.
Smoke-Free Poll Questions
Editable document with poll questions that can be used to assess public opinion and demonstrate public support for smoke-free laws.
2020 Form 990
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