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Half of metro area renters would consider moving to a nonsmoking apartment, according to a new survey.
Jump to full article: Minneapolis (MN) Star Tribune, 2009-11-15
Author: WARREN WOLFE, Star Tribune
Intro: Three metro counties will spend about $204,000 from state health-improvement grants over the next two years to help apartment landlords and renters make their buildings smoke-free.
They start the effort with a survey showing that half of local renters would consider moving to a smoke-free building, including 16 percent of smokers.
"We know that many people want to live in smoke-free environments, and we know that can improve public health," said Lisa Mueller, who administers the state grants for Hennepin County.
Hennepin, Ramsey and Dakota counties, as well as Minneapolis, are pooling part of their state grants to hire the nonprofit Association for Nonsmokers Minnesota to advise them on voluntary non-smoking efforts in multi-unit housing.
The association used part of that grant money to conduct the renters survey. It was conducted by Wilder Research and released to coincide with the annual Great American Smokeout, a stop-smoking effort started in 1974 in Minnesota.
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