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�tpBOT @F m 6.1.E. - Page 15 BF SfiX'A� SMOKE-FREE MULTIUNIT HOUSING: NO IFS, ANDS, OR BUTTS Issue I Summary I Glossary I Background I Discussion I Conclusion I Findings Recommendations I Requests for Responses I Methodology I Bibliography I Appendixes I Responses ISSUE Do ordinances in jurisdictions banning smoking in multiunit housing properties protect San Mateo County residents from exposure to secondhand smoke? SUMMARY In the United States alone, exposure to secondhand smoke has killed approximately 2.5 million nonsmokers of all ages over the last 50 years.1 While California has enacted a statewide ban on smoking in enclosed workplaces, 2, 3 the majority of secondhand smoke exposure occurs in the home. Marijuana smoke, another source of secondhand smoke, is also toxic and contains many of the same chemicals and carcinogens as tobacco smoke.4 Residents of multiunit properties, where smoke in one unit can pass into adjacent ones, are at significant risk of exposure to secondhand smoke.5 In San Mateo County (the County), there are currently almost 114,000 multiunit households,6 and the number is expected to grow as jurisdictions work to address increasing housing demands.7 In 2007, the City of Belmont passed the nation's first ordinance prohibiting smoking in multiunit housing.$ Since then, eight additional cities in San Mateo County, as well as the County itself (with respect to its unincorporated areas) have passed similar multiunit housing smoking ordinances.9 1 The Health Consequences of Smoking 50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General. Rockville, MD. 2014. U.S. Public Health Service website, accessed June 7, 2018. https://www.surgeongencral.gov/library/reports/50-years-of- progress/exec-summary.pdf 2 "AB -13 Fact Sheet - California Workplace Smoking Restrictions. October 1997." State of California. Department of Industrial Relations website, accessed June 7, 2018. haps://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/dosh publications/smoking.html 3 ,AB -7 Smoking in the Workplace. (2015-2016)" California Legislative Information website, accessed June 7, 2018. http://le in�gislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520162AB7 4 "Marijuana and Tobacco Use, Marijuana: The Basics," California Department of Public Health website, accessed June 7, 2018. 5 King et al., "Secondhand Smoke Transfer in Multiunit Housing," Nicotine & Tobacco Research. November 2010. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gotpmc/articles/PMC3436457/pdf/ntg I 62.pdf 6 Officials in San Mateo county jurisdictions: email messages to the Grand Jury. (See Appendix B.) 7 ,Key Housing Trends in San Mateo County: A report by 21 Elements 2014," 21 Elements website, accessed June 7, 2018. <http://www.21clements.com/Housing-Needs-and-Demographics/View-category.html> 8 Chen, Serena. American Lung Association in California and Bay Area Smokefree Housing Project. Belmont Case Study: Belmont, CA Secondhand Smoke/Multi-Unit Housing Ordinance. https://www. myctb. orglwst/heglthylawrence/livewell/TobaccoFreeLivinWAmerican%20Lung%2OAs sociation%2OAdvocat es%20Toolbox/Module-3Belmont-Case-Study_pdf 9 Smoking Ordinances in: Belmont < https://library.municode.com/ca/belmont/codes/code of ordinances?nodeld=CICO_CH2O.5RESM> , Brisbane < https://IibM.municode.com/ca/brisbane/codes/code_of ordinances?nodeld=TIT8HESA_CH8.46SMMUITRE> , Burlingame < http://gcode.us/codes/burlingame/view.php?topic=8-8_18> , Daly City < 2017-2018 San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury