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Although reducing smoking is an important starting point, smoking interventions designed only to reduce cigarette consumptionwithout encouraging quitting might not be enough to reduce risk for smoking-related health impacts

Investing in an air purifier might be a good first step

Pro Tip : This Old House contractor Ross, who has tackled smoke-damaged homes firsthand, shared whats involved: I have done a project like this before and honestly, Im not looking forward to do it again. His team started by scrubbing every surface top to bottom with a TSP (trisodium phosphate) solutiona painstaking but essential first step before any sealing or repainting can begin

That presentation, now included in an online exhibition I curated in 2018, Of Mice and Menthol: The Targeting of African Americans by the Tobacco Industry, can be viewed on the website of the University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society