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Public Housing Nationwide May Be Subject to Smoking Ban
NY Times ^ | NOV. 12, 2015 | Mireya Navarro

Posted on 11/12/2015 3:16:36 AM PST by Drango

Smoking would be prohibited in public housing homes nationwide under a proposed federal rule to be announced on Thursday, a move that would affect nearly one million households and open the latest front in the long-running campaign to curb unwanted exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke.

The ban, by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, would also require that common areas and administrative offices on public housing property be smoke-free. ~ snip

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crackisstillokay; smoking
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Smoking cost money. It's absurd society should subside their rent if they have disposable income.
1 posted on 11/12/2015 3:16:36 AM PST by Drango
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To: Drango

Cue Nelson: “HA-HA!!!”

No doubt smokers will be persecuted worse than gang-bound drug pushing thugs.


2 posted on 11/12/2015 3:31:55 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Drango

While I do not enjoy being around cigarette & cigar smoke, I predict that this idea “will not end well”.


3 posted on 11/12/2015 3:33:04 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: Drango

That’s RACIST.

A smoking ban in public housing would have a disproportionate impact on minorities.


4 posted on 11/12/2015 3:33:09 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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“What I do in my apartment should be my problem long as I pay my rent,” said Gary Smith, 47, a cigarette in hand.

Gary, you're not paying the FULL rent. You live in subsidized housing.

5 posted on 11/12/2015 3:34:39 AM PST by Drango (“Get me some muscle” - Melissa Click)
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While we are at it, lets drug test them too.


6 posted on 11/12/2015 3:48:14 AM PST by Dacula (Southern lives matter!)
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In 15 years or less the buildings will be wrecked and should be torn down.

Not caused by second hand smoke.

7 posted on 11/12/2015 3:51:13 AM PST by TYVets
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Good luck enforcing that. How’s the ban on drugs in public housing working out?


8 posted on 11/12/2015 3:53:04 AM PST by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: Drango

First step in banning it completely.


9 posted on 11/12/2015 3:55:35 AM PST by fruser1
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To: Drango

Marijuana..ok cocaine..ok
Tobacco...verboten
Yeah, sounds about right./s


10 posted on 11/12/2015 4:01:25 AM PST by Vinnie
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To: Drango

Amen.


11 posted on 11/12/2015 4:01:36 AM PST by Wolfie
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UH OH...

12 posted on 11/12/2015 4:06:52 AM PST by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Ask about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: Drango

They will ban “smoking” but limit it only to tobacco.

Tobacco smoke...BAD! Pot smoke...Good.

They try to ban pot smoking everyone in the welfare housing project would either burn the place down or leave.


13 posted on 11/12/2015 4:11:17 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: Drango

Another thing Obama should have done or mentioned BEFORE the election... He hides things even from his own voters.


14 posted on 11/12/2015 4:17:29 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Drango

Isn’t the White House technically subsidized housing?


15 posted on 11/12/2015 4:18:12 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Drango

“Smoking cost money.” LOL, so does liquor, drugs, strip joints, etc, they haven’t gotten a handle on that either.

The real deal here has nothing to do with subsidizing rents...they’ll do that all day long with your money and smile doing it.

What they’re going to fail at doing here is reducing heathcare costs for their always dependent voter base. They’re doing everything they can to increase dependency. It makes perfect sense they’re trying to make each one cost less to keep that way so they can afford to take care of more voters.


16 posted on 11/12/2015 4:25:10 AM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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Drug use is rampant in Section 8 housing. Which will the government go after first? The smokers or, say, the crack dealers?


17 posted on 11/12/2015 4:34:21 AM PST by Personal Responsibility (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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To: Drango; SheLion; Eric Blair 2084; -YYZ-; 31R1O; 383rr; AFreeBird; AGreatPer; Alamo-Girl; Alia; ...

In the meantime, it will be business as usual for the bangers and drug pushers.

HUD Nanny State PING!


18 posted on 11/12/2015 4:38:52 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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To: Drango
but pot will be OK... right???
19 posted on 11/12/2015 4:45:56 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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You live in the government house, you live by the government rule.


20 posted on 11/12/2015 4:48:33 AM PST by Lazamataz ( If they try firearm confiscation or gun registration, I go ballistic.)
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