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Association for Nonsmokers – Minnesota |
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Tobacco-
Free Youth Recreation
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May 15 & 16
Youth Policy Advocacy Mini-Grant Opportunity
Reducing the number of new, young smokers and continually crusading for the rights and the health of nonsmokers are ANSR's core commitments. A 1997 report from the RAND Corporation stated, "ANSR has played a critical role in both the development of local ordinances and in their implementation and enforcement." Because of ANSR, if you work in Minnesota, your work-place is likely to be smoke-free. In 1975 ANSR fought to get the most comprehensive smoking legislation in the nation passed. The Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act (MCIAA) guaranteed the rights of Minnesotans to breathe clean air at work. ANSR continues to work to improve conditions in factories, restaurants and rental housing. ANSR also took a leading role in curbing youth access to tobacco by helping to pass comprehensive youth access legislation in 1997. In 1994 ANSR published the first list of smoke-free restaurants in Minnesota. In 1998 with the help of a grant from Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Minnesota we have put a new listing on-line which lists over 450 smoke-free restaurants. It is clear that Minnesotans, smokers as well as non-smokers, prefer not to be bothered by secondhand smoke where they eat or where they work. I ANSR believes that smoke-free rental housing is an idea whose time has come. We stand ready to help renters, landlords and owners who desire creative solutions for secondhand smoke problems in their rental property.
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