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Playing Tobacco Free: <br /> Tobacco-Free Policies For Park & Recreation Facilities <br /> Tobacco-free park and recreation The Tobacco-Free Youth Recreation Initiative <br /> areas promote health <br /> Tobacco-Free Youth Recreation(TFYR) is Minnesota's statewide <br /> • Parks are established to promote healthy activities. The recreation-based tobacco prevention program that assists recreational <br /> purpose of park areas is to promote community wellness, groups in promoting healthy tobacco-free lifestyles. TFYR offers <br /> and tobacco-free policies fit with this idea. assistance in tobacco-free policy development and implementation <br /> • <br /> Secondhand smoke harms everyone. Secondhand smoke and also distributes materials that promote the tobacco-free sports <br /> message throughout Minnesota. <br /> is a human carcinogen for which there is no safe level of <br /> exposure. Exposure to secondhand smoke has immediate <br /> health consequenses such as asthma attacks and other res- Policy adoption assistance <br /> piratory diseases. & FREE signs available through TFYR <br /> • Secondhand smoke is harmful in outdoor settings. Ac- TFYR offers municipal park&recreation departments techni- <br /> cording to Repace Associates,secondhand smoke levels in cal assistance in tobacco-free policy development. To help with <br /> outdoor public places can reach levels as high as those policy implementation,TFYR provides 12"x 18"metal blue& <br /> found in indoor facilities where smoking is permitted. white tobacco-free signs for FREE to Minnesota cities that adopt <br /> • Cigarette litter is dangerous. Discarded cigarettes pol- comprehensive tobacco-free policies for their outdoor recreational <br /> lute the land and water and may be ingested by toddlers, facilities (limit 100 per community). <br /> pets,birds or fish. <br /> • Tobacco free policies help change community norms. To qualify for the signs,the tobacco-free policy <br /> Tobacco-free policies establish the community norm that must include: <br /> tobacco use is not an acceptable behavior for young people • A list of all the facilities it covers. <br /> or adults within the entire community. • A statement that all forms of tobacco use <br /> are prohibited. <br /> • An enforcement plan that includes " <br /> • Why are Minnesota cities adopting •, <br /> a)community and staff notification;and <br /> tobacco-free park policies..? Tobacco-Free Sins b)signage. g <br /> • Most Minnesotans support tobacco free park and rec- <br /> reation policies. A 2004 University of Minnesota survey Contact TFYR staff(see below left)for policy adoption assistance. <br /> found that 70%of Minnesota residents support tobacco-free Once a policy has been adopted in your community, send a copy of <br /> park and recreation areas. In addition, 66% of golfers and the policy and a completed sign order form to TFYR. Download an <br /> 73%of families with children support these policies. order form from our web site at<www.ansrmn.org>. <br /> • Policies provide consistency among community athletic <br /> facilities and groups. The majority of community sporting Minnesota Cities with Tobacco-Free <br /> events are held at either city or school district athletic facili- outdoor Recreational Facilities <br /> ties, and nearly all school districts prohibit tobacco use on • Aitkin • Eden Prairie • Nwd Yng America <br /> • Andover • Edina • Owatonna <br /> their entire grounds.Also,many community athletic associa- . Anoka • Elk River • Pelican Rapids <br /> tions have policies but use city recreation facilities and would • Aurora • Eveleth . Plymouth <br /> • Austin • Faribault • Prinsburg <br /> benefit from a city-wide policy. . Baxter • Fergus Falls • Ramsey <br /> • Biwabik • Golden Valley • Richfield <br /> Policies reduce litter and maintenance costs. In a 2004 • Bloomington • Grand Rapids • Robbinsdale <br /> • Brainerd • Hibbing . Rochester <br /> survey,58%of Minnesota park directors in cities with poli- Breckenridge Hoyt Lakes 0 Rock County <br /> cies reported cleaner park areas. • Brooklyn Center • Int'I Falls • Roseville <br /> • Buhl • Kent • Sartell <br /> Tobacco free environments promote positive community Champlin Luverne 0 Savage <br /> • Cloquet • Mahtomedi . Shoreview <br /> role modeling and protect the health, safety, and welfare of Cohasset Maple Grove Spicer <br /> • Coon Rapids • Maplewood • St. Cloud <br /> community members. • Crookston • Marshall • St.Paul <br /> • Duluth • Monticello • Virginia <br /> • Eagan • Morris . Willmar <br /> Association for Nonsmokers--Minnesota • Eagle Lake • Mountain Iron • Wolverton <br /> 2395 University Ave.West,#310 <br /> • New Brighton • Zimmerman <br /> St. Paul, MN 55114-1512 <br /> (651)646-3005;tfyr@ansrmn.org <br /> Youn9 A April <br /> , . .,Qrrg <br />