Resources for Employers and Communities

 
The Association for Nonsmokers-Minnesota offers the following resources for employers and the community at large:

Employer Resources

• Promotes smoke-free workplaces for all sectors.
• Assistance in developing workplace policies related to tobacco. 
• Online resources:
  - A Primer on Developing a Workplace Smoking Policy
  - Questions and Answers about Policies regulating Smoking in the Workplace
• Presentations:
  - Tobacco Free Youth Recreation program
  - Protecting Kids from Smoke 
• Health fair participation. 
• Advocacy for blue-collar and manufacturing workers who remain unprotected from second hand smoke.

Community Resources

• Advocacy supporting smoke-free restaurants to protect the employees as well as patrons.
• Presentations:
  - Tobacco Free Youth Recreation program
  - Protecting Kids from Smoke 
• Online restaurant directory of smoke-free restaurants.
• Works with communities to develop local tobacco ordinances.
• Initiative to reduce the illegal sale of tobacco to minors.
• Tobacco-Free Youth Recreation (TFYR), a statewide program which models tobacco-free lifestyles for young people involved in community-based organized recreation programs for youth ages 12 to 17. TFYR helps to:
  - Establish tobacco-free policies for coaches, spectators, and other adults.
  - Create Tobacco-Free Zones.
  - Promote positive health messages from coaches, parents, teens, and other role
     models.
• Online Handbook: Teens and Tobacco  
• Secondhand Smoke Resource Center, a comprehensive set of resources on secondhand smoke and strategies for addressing the problems it causes.