[dennisw]

This was not as issue before. The real story here is petty bureaucrats getting their rocks off by bothering the tenants.

[Drango]

As of October 2013, more than 300 public housing authorities had banned smoking, with more and more owners and managers of multi-unit housing doing the same on their own.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/10/02/a-subsidized-housing-smoking-ban-could-save-half-a-billion-dollars-a-year/