A qualitative study of the process of adoption, implementation and enforcement of smoke-free policies in privately-owned affordable housing

• Main Authors: Michelle C. Kegler (Author), Erin Lebow-Skelley (Author), Jaimie Lea (Author), Regine Haardörfer (Author), Adrienne Lefevre (Author), Pam Diggs (Author), Sally Herndon (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Household smoke-free home rules cannot fully protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke (SHS) if they live in multi-unit housing (MUH). Instead, property-level smoke-free policies are needed to prevent SHS incursion into apartment units and to keep common areas smoke-free. Smoke-fr...