Willow Place smoke-free
(March 29, 2010)
(Guelph Tribune) - Concerned with health effects of secondhand tobacco smoke and the increased risk of fire, the board of directors for Guelph Independent Living has agreed unanimously to make its Willow Place non-profit housing complex on Willow Road a smoke free environment for all staff members and new tenants. more...
Cigarette discarded on deck sparked blaze
(March 29, 2010)
(Peterborough Examiner) - Careless smoking is believed to have caused a fire that destroyed part of a Lakefield house Monday night. more...
Careless smoking caused Calgary condo fire that left hundreds homeless
(March 29, 2010)
(The National Post) - The massive fire that destroyed a Calgary condominium building was caused by careless disposal of smoking materials, the city fire department reported yesterday. more...
Bruce makes affordable housing smoke free
(March 24, 2010)
(The Sun Times) - Bruce County's 36-unit affordable housing complex to be built in Saugeen Shores will be a nonsmoking building. more...
Waterloo region bans smoking in multi-unit public housing
(March 17, 2010)
(Waterloo Region Record) - Waterloo Region - Janet Lowrey hopes a new Waterloo regional policy banning smoking in multi-unit dwellings will help her quit the habit. Isabel Adams has a heart condition and welcomes a move that should reduce the smell of smoke seeping into her apartment from adjoining units. more...
Secondhand tobacco smoke revisited
(March 17, 2010)
(New York Law Journal) - This column previously discussed second- hand tobacco smoke in 2006, following release of the Surgeon General’s report concluding that secondhand smoke poses a serious health risk. To date, 26 states and the District of Columbia have passed comprehensive smoke-free laws. However, these laws exempt the place where most Americans spend the greatest amount of time—home. more...
Victory for non-smoking condo couple in B.C.
(March 9, 2010)
(The Toronto Star) - A decision of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal late last year could have an enormous effect on owners and occupants of condominiums and rental apartments across Canada in the coming months. Paul and Rose Kabatoff live in a suite in an attractive three-storey condominium building in Langley, B.C. They both have a number of health problems including respiratory illnesses and allergies that are negatively affected by secondhand cigarette smoke. more...
Flames force family from Barton St. home
(March 9, 2010)
(The Hamilton Spectator) - Careless smoking sparked a fire that tore through the apartment above an east-end store yesterday afternoon, leaving a young family homeless. more...
Forbidden cigarette burns home
(February 26, 2010)
(Times-Journal) - After spending the night at Regional Mental Health Care, St. Thomas, 34 residents of a city group home who fled a fire late Saturday have been re-settled in the community. The fire has been blamed on a forbidden smoke which set a sofa ablaze in the TV room at Pine Hill Rest Home, 10 Chester St. more...
A new fear: third-hand cigarette smoke
(February 22, 2010)
(Toronto Star) - A California research lab has found in a recent that third-hand smoke, or the residue of cigarettes that is left on clothing, paper or walls, is extremely carcinogenic when combined with an indoor pollutant. more...
Second-hand smoke war not over
(February 8, 2010)
(The Belleville Intelligencer) - Health unit will keep up the fight.
The war on decreasing local residents' exposure to second-hand smoke is not one the local health unit will be giving up on in the coming months. The board of health heard headway has been made in the past few years in decreasing people's exposure to cigarette smoke through no-smoking bylaws, changes to provincial legislation and education. more...
Cigarette fire evacuates apartment
(February 8, 2010)
(Niagara This Week) - Heavy smoke from an apartment fire caused the evacuation of an 18-unit building, leaving tenants in the three-storey structure temporarily homeless. more...
NSRA releases new resource on human rights
(February 8, 2010)
The Non-Smokers' Rights Association has released a new resource on human rights and discrimination in the context of smoke-free multi-unit housing. more...
Mayor Thomas Menino lights up battle of the butt
(February 3, 2010)
(Boston Herald) - Launches crusade to ban smoking in public housing. Mayor Thomas M. Menino is opening a new front in his war against tobacco: the city’s cigarette-ridden housing projects, which he vows to make smoke-free in the next four years. more...
Speak up on apartment smokers
(January 27, 2010)
(24 Hrs Ottawa) - There's no need to be passive about passive smoking. People living in condos, apartments and other multi-unit dwellings often don't speak out about second-hand smoke because they think their landlord can't do anything, said Pippa Beck, president of the Ottawa Council on Smoking and Health. more...
Cigarette sparked Sandy Hill blaze
(January 27, 2010)
(Ottawa Sun) - The weekend fire that left 28 Sandy Hill residents homeless was caused by careless smoking, an investigation into the blaze has determined. The fire broke out around noon Saturday at a three storey apartment building on Mann Ave. more...
Improve the indoor air quality at home
(January 27, 2010)
(The Enterprise-Bulletin) - Chances are people wouldn't purposely eat or drink poison. Most individuals are very conscious about what they put into their bodies. However, often times they show less concern about the potentially harmful substances that they could be breathing in. Air quality — and the harmful substances swirling around in the air we breathe -- often goes unnoticed because air is invisible. more...
First smoke-free apartment building in Niagara built for affordability
(January 19, 2010)
(Welland Tribune) — A new affordable housing project in the downtown Niagara Falls area is set to welcome tenants later this month. Morrison St. apartments, located on vacant land where an old United Church once stood, is expected to begin renting out Dec. 15. more...