Strategies put in place to provide smoke-free recreation areas are the topic of a September research article being published by, "Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice, and Policy."

Localities in California have, since 2000, put in place hundreds of policies and ordinances to protect citizens from secondhand smoke. This research, conducted by Travis D. Satterlund, Ph.D., J.D.; Diana Cassady, Dr. Ph.; Jeanette Trieber, Ph. D.; and Cathy Lemp, looks at strategies used by state-funded local tobacco control programs to enact smoke-free policies involving outdoor recreational spaces.

The smoke-free recreation areas article is also available as download as a pdf file.