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- 1 Jun 2015
Valerie Maundrell's Story
“I was determined not to live next to a smoker,” said Valerie Maundrell, a homeowner in South Surrey, BC, “so much so that my husband and I let go of an accepted offer on a beautiful new townhome when we found out a smoker lived next door.”
- 29 May 2015
News Release
A new survey of BC Real Estate Agents finds that smoking in condos can significantly affect property values. In fact, it found most buyers are less likely or unwilling to buy smokers’ homes. - 6 Mar 2015News Release
Today, the BC government announced new proposed amendments to the Tobacco Control Act to regulate e-cigarettes. This legislation will help stop the growing use of e-cigarettes by young people in BC. - 5 Mar 2015By Dirk Meissner, Canadian Press
British Columbia is becoming the latest province to regulate electronic cigarettes, with legislation designed to prevent young people from using the devices or being exposed to their vapour. - 25 Jan 2015By Carly Weeks, The Globe and Mail Newspaper
Remember when restaurants had smoking sections? Or when going out to a bar inevitably meant coming home smelling like an ashtray, even if you never took a puff on a cigarette? Thankfully, those days are long over. - 29 May 2014BC Clean Air Coalition News
YES, say smoke‐free housing advocates that include the BC Lung Association, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, supported by partners including the Condominium Homeowners' Association and Landlord BC. So eager are they to see more multi‐unit property owners and managers implementing 100 percent smoke‐free policies, they’ve made June Smoke‐Free Housing Month. - 29 May 2014By Kirk Williams, CBC TV News
Smoke-free Housing BC has been pushing for a ban on smoking in buildings for 10 years, but advocates say the concept is starting to take off with more than 100 apartment buildings now entirely smoke-free. - 15 Aug 2012BC Clean Air Coalition Update
The Heart and Stroke Foundation and the BC Lung Association have been working together under the Clean Air Coalition of BC banner for more than a decade. Our objective is to help combat the negative health effects of tobacco use and exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke. Read about what we've been up to lately. - 31 May 2012BC Clean Air Coalition News
On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the World Health Organization’s World No Tobacco Day, the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the BC Lung Association have issued a Report Card to the Government of British Columbia on its current tobacco control efforts. - 15 May 2012BC Clean Air Coalition Position Statement
Many British Columbians living in multi-unit dwellings including apartments,townhouses and condos are involuntarily exposed to a dangerous health hazard in their homes – second-hand tobacco smoke.
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