1. Tobacco and Secondhand Smoke
A presentation for Public Housing Authority Residents

2. Portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id= smokefree final rule.pdf
Smoke-Free HUD Rule
Bans lit tobacco products (for example, cigarettes, cigars, pipes, and hookahs) inside units & within 25 feet of any building
Includes balconies, parking lots (if they are within 25 feet of a building), hallways, and other indoor common areas
Aligns with HUD’s mission of providing safe, decent, and sanitary housing.
2/16/2019
Portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id= smokefree final rule.pdf

3. Texas Leading Causes of Death, 2015
The conditions boxed in red are all caused by smoking
Cerebrovascular means stroke. Chronic lower respiratory diseases include Chronic Bronchitis, Emphysema, asthma (diseases that deal with breathing) (respiratory means breathing)

4. Burden of Tobacco Use
1 American dies every 67 seconds due to a cigarette-related disease.1
1 Texan dies every 19 minutes due to a cigarette-related disease.2
In the US, for every 5 people that die, one died from a cigarette-related disease.³
(3) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Smoking & Tobacco Use: Health Effects of Cigarette
Smoking. Available:

5. Tobacco Use in Texas 15.2% of adults currently smoke.2
5.2% of middle school students currently smoke.1
10.6% of high school students currently smoke.1
2016 YTS
2015 BRFSS
2016 Youth Tobacco Survey
2015 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

6. Rate of Current Cigarette Use by Household Income in Texas, 2015
Smoking rate for household income $35,000-$49,999 is 16.4% and $50,000-$74,999 is 12.7%
Data Source: Texas Behavioral Risk Factor Survey
Current cigarette smoking among adults is defined as "yes" responses to the survey question, "Have you smoked at least 100 cigarettes in your entire life?" and responses of "everyday" or "some days" to the survey question, "Do you now smoke cigarettes every day, some days, or not at all?".

7. Smoking rates, HUD Residents US 2006-2012
Source: A health picture of HUD-Assisted Adults

8. Smoking and Health .

9. Tobacco Use and Pregnancy
Pregnant women who smoke are more likely to:
miscarry
give birth early
give birth to a low birth weight baby (a baby that weighs less than 5 pounds 7 oz. when born).³
Babies born to a mother who smokes during or after pregnancy are 4 to 5 times more likely to die of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (or SIDS) than babies born to a mother who doesn’t smoke.
Almost half (40%) of women who quit smoking while pregnant, start back within 6 months of giving birth.²
Texas Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) 2014, Retrieved on June 28, 2017 from
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) PRAMS Retrieved on June 28,2017 from
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2014.
Sharma et al. Lifestyle factors and reproductive health: taking control of your fertility Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2013, 11:66. Retrieved on June 29, 2017 from

10. Smoking and Pregnancy

11. Multiunit Housing Secondhand Smoke

12. Multiunit Housing Secondhand Smoke

13. Secondhand Smoke and the Health of Your Family

14. Data Source: https://cdc.gov
Benefits of Quitting
Data Source: