The Smoke-Free Housing Initiative has been busy working on resources to help apartment managers adopt smoke-free policies in at least on of their residential buildings. Smoke-free policies will not only help increase revenue for the property by decreasing maintenance costs and risk of fire, but it will also help improve the overall health of tenants by decreasing their exposure to harmful secondhand smoke.

 Continuing with the success of last year’s landmark national tobacco education campaign, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is airing a second series of ads featuring real people who are living with the effects of smoking-related diseases. The newest ads in the “Tips from Former Smokers” campaign tell the story of how real people’s lives were changed