Places, Spaces and Automobiles

Tobacco-Free Places, Spaces and Automobiles focuses on making these six environments 100% tobacco-free: homes, vehicles, bars, workplaces, schools, and playing fields. For each environment, the program offers easy-to-use materials, ranging from pledge cards to manuals on how make your designated space tobacco-free.

The program, created by the Partnership For A Tobacco-Free Maine, makes an impact by:

• Raising public awareness about the dangers of secondhand smoke.
• Bringing the issue right down to the community level.
• Allowing for universal involvement among home and car owners; employers and employees; principals, school employees, students and parents. People can work independently or together to create tobacco-free zones.

The program was established to address these alarming facts about secondhand smoke.

• Exposure to secondhand smoke is the third leading cause of preventable death in America.
• In Maine seven people die from tobacco use every day, one being a nonsmoker exposed to secondhand smoke.
• The Environmental Protection Agency has classified secondhand smoke as a Group A carcinogen — the most dangerous category of cancer-causing agents.
• Children exposed to secondhand smoke have an increased risk of contracting serious respiratory-tract infections and asthma.

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