Full TECC Catalog (June 2024)

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Secondhand Smoke

Make your LGBTQ+ events tobacco-free.

TOOL THREE

TOOL #3: SUGGESTED SURVEY METHODS AND QUESTIONS

Conducting a survey is an excellent way to gauge support for smoke-free policies. Conducting a survey can also be an effective way to draw the community in, giving surveyors a chance to offer information about secondhand smoke, tobacco-industry targeting and quit-smoking services that may be available. Recommendations in this section are based on experience. In 2005, the LGBT Partnership surveyed almost 1,000 individuals at Pride celebrations in Fresno, Sacramento, and San Francisco. A Summary of Pride Intercept Survey Findings reported the following: “The LGBT Partnership’s planning and determination to capture people’s thoughts on tobacco use and the LGBTQ community allowed them to collect relevant and interesting information that not only informs their own advocacy work, but also provides insight into the attitudes of individuals in these diverse cities. While there were slight variations in responses among the three cities, the findings were overwhelmingly positive, with a majority of respondents — smokers and nonsmokers alike — supporting smoke-free policies . . .” 3 When planning your survey, the most important detail to remember is this: At Pride, there are many other attractions and booths competing for people’s attention. The surveyor only has a few minutes with each person before they will want to move on to the next attraction.

HOW TO USE THIS TOOLKIT Before you approach your city’s Pride festival committee about banning smoking at Pride events, you must prepare. You’ll need information, support, and allies. This toolkit will help. Reading this toolkit will give you the information you need to present a coherent and compelling argument. • Familiarize yourself with statistics — numbers that show the smoking rate in the gay community, paired with illness and death rates. Gather data on the environmental costs of cigarette smoking. • Prepare your personal story about why you care about this issue. Have you lost a family member or friend to tobacco-related disease? • Arm yourself with responses to challenging questions such as, “What are you going to ban next, cheese?” Chances are you will face people who question your motives, so it makes sense to have some answers for them. • Follow the step-by-step guidelines used to advocate for policy change, listed in Tools 3 and 4.

Smokefree Outdoor Pride Event Toolkit A guide to make LGBTQ Pride events smokefree. Includes step-by-step guidelines, surveys, sample policies. Audience LGBTQ advocates Manual 8.5" x 11", 25 pp. #J779

• Use the sample policy language in this toolkit found in Tool 5 as a reference when writing your own policies. • Learn how to assess community

support for smoke-free Pride events through easy-to-administer surveys. • In Tool 3, read about pilot projects from San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Cruz, and Fresno. Can you learn anything from their experiences? Read the toolkit, bookmark pages, write in it and make it your own. Good luck!

PRIDE TOOLKIT • 15

“As a former smoker, when someone next to me lights up,

I think, ‘Oh no, I’ve got to smell

that all day.’ It’s noxious.” – San Francisco Pride attendee

4 • PRIDE TOOLKIT

Protect Your Family from Secondhand Smoke Encourages LGBTQ families to make their homes tobacco-free for the sake of themselves, their children, and their pets. Includes facts about secondhand smoke, how to make your home tobacco-free and the benefits of a tobacco free home. Audience LGBTQ community Brochure 5.5" x 8.5" #J843

Everyone breathes easier in a tobacco-free home.

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