title: Estimates of smoking-related property costs in California multiunit housing.
abstract: We systematically evaluated smoking-related costs in multiunit housing. From 2008 to 2009, we surveyed California multiunit housing owners or managers on their past-year smoking-related costs and smoke-free policies. A total of 27.1% of respondents had incurred smoking-related costs (mean $4935), and 33.5% reported complete smoke-free policies, which lowered the likelihood of incurring smoking-related costs. Implementing statewide complete smoke-free policies may save multiunit housing property owners $ 18,094,254 annually.
authors.affiliation: Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA. mong@mednet.ucla.edu
authors.forename: Michael K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Ong
authors.forename: Allison L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Diamant
authors.forename: Qiong
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Hye-Youn
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Robert M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Kaplan
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008283:Maintenance / Q000191:economics*; D016134:Organizational Policy; D012907:Smoking / Q000191:economics*