Advocacy Resources

In spite of the tobacco companies’ extreme makeover campaigns, their product causes preventable disease and early death.

Fortunately, some organizations have mobilized to minimize the devastating impact of tobacco upon our families and communities. If you have a passion for smoke free environments and preventing youth tobacco addiction, check out advocacy resources below: 

Smoke-Free Marin Coalition
The Smoke-Free Marin Coalition is an informal coalition of grassroots tobacco activists, community groups, health agencies, and youth serving agencies.

The Coalition was founded in 1990 and plays an advocacy role in public health policy and local legislation regarding tobacco addiction prevention, clean indoor/outdoor air laws, reducing tobacco sales to minors, and tobacco advertising issues. 

If you’d like to join the coalition or would like to attend the next meeting, please call (415) 499-3020 or email sladnier@co.marin.ca.us to receive information.

Issue Areas
Tobacco control advocacy can include a wide topic of issue areas in addition to outdoor smoke-free policies, such as retail licensing, and smoke-free movies. 

The Center for Tobacco Policy and Organizing -

http://www.center4tobaccopolicy.org/

Matrix of Strong Tobacco Retailer Licensing Ordinances: May 2009

Tobacco Retailer Licensing Reduces Sales to Minors

 The Technical Assistance Legal Center
http://talc.phi.org
The Technical Assistance Legal Center (TALC) provides free legal assistance on tobacco control issues. The Center recently compared retail licensing laws in four California communities entitled “Case Studies on the Implementation and Enforcement of Local Tobacco Retailer Licensing Ordinances in California.” The report can be downloaded at http://talc.phlaw.org/pdf_files/0077.pdf.

American's for Nonsmoker's Rights

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights is the leading national lobbying organization (501 (c) 4), dedicated to nonsmokers' rights, taking on the tobacco industry at all levels of government, protecting nonsmokers from exposure to secondhand smoke, and preventing tobacco addiction among youth. ANR pursues an action-oriented program of policy and legislation.

http://www.no-smoke.org/

Smoke-Free Air in Multi-Unit Residential Housing
http://www.smokefreeapartments.org/
Provides fact sheets and information packets to assist landlords and tenants in clearing the air of drifting smoke in apartments, condominiums and townhouses.

California Clean Air Program
www.ccap.etr.org 
California ’s Clean Air Project (CCAP), a project of ETR Associates. CCAP provides secondhand smoke (SHS) specific technical assistance, training, and educational materials statewide.