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Smoke Free Maryland
Coalition for Tobacco
Control
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What
is Smoke Free Maryland?
Smoke Free Maryland (SMF)
is a statewide coalition made up of over 100+ health, community, government,
faith and advocacy organizations, representing over 500,000 Marylanders, working
to prevent and reduce tobacco use, Maryland’s leading preventable cause of
death and disease.
What is the Coalition?
The coalition was founded in
1993 and has been based at MedChi, Center for a Healthy Maryland for fiscal and
administrative oversight since that time. SFM receives generous financial
support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and member organizations
including the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association and MedChi,
the Maryland State Medical Society.
What Does Smoke
Free Maryland Do?
Smoke Free Maryland
advocates for proven effective policies and programs on the local, state and
federal levels to decrease morbidity and mortality from tobacco products among
tobacco users and the public. The coalition is guided by a set of principles
that includes:
 | All employees should be protected by law in
their right to a smoke-free work environment.
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| The public should be protected by making
enclosed public places free of environmental tobacco smoke;
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| Laws against selling tobacco products to
children should be enforced and must include the eventual suspension and
revocation of licenses for those who repeatedly sell to minors;
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| Taxes on all tobacco products should be
increased and revenue should be dedicated to a comprehensive tobacco use
prevention and cessation program;
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| The state should not pre-empt the ability
of counties or municipalities from enacting stronger local tobacco control
laws.
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What is
in Smoke Free Maryland’s Future?
SFM’s chief
priority for 2005 is extending the smoke-free workplace protection, that most
Marylanders already enjoy, to bar and restaurant workers- the only unprotected
class of worker currently.
Learn more about how you can support our clean indoor air campaign by visiting www.SmokeFreeMD.org.
To join our list of members and supporters, contact us at office@SmokeFreeMD.org
or www.SmokeFreeMD.org.
Kari Appler
Project Director
Ph. 410-539-0872, ext. 353 or 800-492-1056
Email kappler@medchi.org
Center for a Healthy
Maryland, Inc.
MedChi, The Maryland State Medical Society
1211 Cathedral Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21201-5516
Tel: 800-492-1056 or 410-539-0872
Fax: 410-649-4131
www.healthymaryland.org
www.medchi.org
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