Clean Air Manhattan

A grassroots coalition that advocates clean indoor air for all workplaces

The voters of Manhattan, Kansas on November 4, 2008 voted to make

Manhattan, Kansas smoke-free effective January 4, 2009

Thank you for providing a safe environment for everyone

Read the CAM Ordinance

 

Everyone has the right to breathe clean, safe air in public places and workplaces!

When you enter a workplace where smoking is allowed, you are exposed to:

  • Carbon monoxide
  • Benzopyrene (cancer-causing substance)
  • Methane (swamp gas)
  • Arsenic (poison to kill rodents)
  • Cyanide
  • And thousands of other toxic chemicals and poisons

Secondhand smoke is poisonous

 
 

 

78% of the adults in Kansas do not smoke, but secondhand smoke is estimated to cause 53,000 premature deaths in the United States annually

 

We need your help and support !

Join Clean Air Manhattan

 

 
 

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CDC Fact Sheet Smoke-Free Policies Reduce Smoking (October 2006)

 

Surgeon General: No Safe Level for Secondhand Smoke

Surgeongeneral.gov/library/secondhandsmoke/

 

Read Recent Economic Impact Studies

 

 

 

 

Smoke-free Places

When the Big Apple (New York City) went smoke-free, restaurant business increased by 12%

Share the Air

Facts from the American Cancer Society

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About Us / Join / The Facts at Clean Air KC /

Q & A (Complements of Lawrence Clean Air) / Credits and Information

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What is sidestream smoke?

Links to Professional Associations

Tobacco.org News and Information

Tobacco Free Ks org

 http://www.tobaccofreekids.org

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