Your Commercial Tobacco Smoke-Free Tribal Policy Toolkit
Want to have your tribal community breathing easier? We can help. This Commercial Tobacco Smoke-Free Tribal Policy Toolkit [4th Edition] helps Tribes and tribal-serving organizations plan and implement effective smoke-free policies that best protect tribal communities and individuals residing, working or visiting sovereign tribal lands.
Make Clean Air a Reality
Dear Visitor:
Included here is a collection of resources and lessons learned from Tribes and tribal communities across the continent, meant to help you design effective, community-specific commercial tobacco use prevention and control policies that limit or eliminate commercial tobacco use in tribally controlled spaces, reducing the health risks associated with secondhand smoke exposure.
Despite misconceptions about non-smoking sections and expensive ventilation systems, 100% commercial tobacco smoke-free policies remain the only proven method of protecting tribal members, employees, and tribal business patrons from the dangers of secondhand smoke.
Smoke-free policies have become a global trend, with tribal, state, and local governments securing smoke-free public spaces for their citizens. Comprehensive smoke-free policies address both indoor and outdoor spaces and include the use of electronic nicotine delivery systems such as e-cigarettes, smokeless and novel commercial tobacco products. These policies are part of a larger effort to support community norms where commercial tobacco abuse and nicotine addiction do not exist.
Let us act now to protect our children and our children’s children.
Special thanks to all of the contributors (listed at right), who have provided leadership in smoke-free policy implementation and generosity in sharing their resources and lessons learned.
Respectfully,
National Native Network Team
Contributors
The sample policy language and other resources for this 4th Edition of the Smoke-Free Policy Toolkit contributed by:
Alliance for Justice, American Non-Smokers Rights Foundation, Bay Mills Health Center, Blackfeet Tribe, Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, Burness Communication, Cherokee Nation, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Clean Indoor Air Pueblo, Health Education and Promotion Council, Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan, Leech Lake Tribal College, Lower Sioux Indian Community, Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Muscogee Creek Nation, Navajo Nation, Northern Plains Tobacco Prevention Project, Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi, Missouri Break Industries, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Smoke-Free Alaska Project, Smoke-Free Fort Collins, Sonoma County Indian Health Project, Inc., South Dakota Department of Health, Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, United Tribes Technical College, University of Kentucky College of Nursing - Kentucky Center for Smoke-Free Policy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Resources to Help You Make the Difference
Below you can explore six different types of resources that are shared here for you by Tribes and tribal organizations to help you implement commercial tobacco smoke-free policies in your community. These include talking points, community assessment surveys, and commercial tobacco cessation PSAs developed by tribal youth groups. Click on a boxes below to begin.
Talking Points
Community
Assessments
Media
Resources
Enforcement
And Gaining
Compliance
Evaluations
Reference
Documents
examples of tribal smoke-free policies, codes, and ordinances
Tribes, tribal organizations, and tribal colleges have shared their commercial tobacco and e-cigarette smoke free policies, codes, ordinances, and resolutions. These documents are organized into five boxes below:
Public/Tribal
Housing Policies
Casino/
Workplace
Policies
Smoke-Free
Campus Policies
Smoke-Free
Recreation
Policies
Comprehensive
Tribal
Ordinances
other useful resources
Many agencies and organizations support commercial tobacco smoke free policy development and implementation withexpertise and resources. Below are a few great examples. See more of our partners and affiliates here.
- Public Health Law Center: Smoke-Free Tribal Housing Policies
- South Dakota Tribal Tobacco Policy toolkit for K-12, Post-Secondary, and Community
- Native American Rehabilitation Association's Smoke-Free Event toolkit
- Gambling with our health: smoke-free policy would not reduce tribal casino patronage.
- Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians Smoke Free Homes Toolkit
- Sault Tribe Smoke-Free Housing Initiative - Creating Healthy Places for Generations to Come Presentation
- HUD Smoke Free Housing Toolkit for Owners/Management Agents of Public and Multi-Family Housing
- HUD Smoke Free Housing Toolkit for Residents
- Americans for Nonsmokers Rights
- American Lung Association
- Public Health Law Center
- World Health Organization
Past Edition Contributors
Funding for the 1st Edition provided by:
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation—Tobacco Policy Change
- South Dakota Department of Health
- Tobacco Free Nebraska
Funding for the 2nd Edition provided by:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—Office of Smoking and Health
- Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan
Funding for the 3rd Edition provided by:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—Office of Smoking and Health
- Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan
- Edited by Favian Kennedy