Health Issues
ACTION for Healthy Communities — Community Assessment Report 2010
Smoking Inside Home (including Smokeless Tobacco, Pipe)
Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), or second-hand smoke, increases the risk of heart disease and significant lung conditions, especially asthma and bronchitis in children. ETS is responsible for an estimated 3,000 lung cancer deaths each 9 year among adult non-smokers. Fortunately, there has been a reduction in both smoking in the home and a very large decrease in smoking in the home with nonsmokers present within San Luis Obispo County.
In the past 30 days has anyone, including yourself, smoked cigarettes, cigars, or pipes anywhere inside your home? (Respondents answering “Yes”) 100% 75% 50% 25%
12.7%
9.8%
6.3%
N=761
N=522
N=501
2001
2003
2006
0%
5.0% N=1,101
2010
Source: ACTION for Healthy Communities, Telephone Survey, 2001, 2003, 2006, and 2010.
Have there been any non-smokers present in your home, while someone was smoking? (Respondents answering “Yes”) 100% 75% 50%
75.3% 64.7%
66.6%
N=97 N=51
N=32
31.4%
25% N=55
0% 2001
2003
2006
2010
Source: ACTION for Healthy Communities, Telephone Survey, 2001, 2003, 2006, and 2010.
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