World No Tobacco Day is May 31, 2018

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World No Tobacco Day is May 31, 2018. Tobacco kills more than 7 million people each year. More than 6 million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use, while around 890,000 are the result of nonsmokers being exposed to secondhand smoke.

Among American adults who have never smoked, secondhand smoke causes an estimated 34,000 deaths each year from heart disease and 7,300 deaths each year from lung cancer and stroke. In children, exposure to secondhand smoke increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, respiratory infection, more frequent and severe attacks of asthma, and other health problems.

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American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Indoor Environments Division (IED) focuses on smoke-free policy adoption and implementation in low-income and affordable privately owned multiunit housing. This is where children and others disproportionately affected by secondhand smoke commonly reside. Exposure to secondhand smoke in multiunit housing is a major problem due to infiltration, or the migration of secondhand smoke between housing units.

IED is continuing to support the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the implementation of HUD’s smoke-free public housing rule.

Visit EPA’s IED website to learn more about secondhand smoke.

Contact EPA’s Gina Bowler at bowler.gina@epa.gov for additional information.

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