SAHA (San Antonio Housing Authority) to ban smoking in public housing

San Antonio Express News ^ | 07/27/2011 | Karisa King

[Responsibility2nd]

Chris Tatum smokes on the front porch of his Wheatley Courts apartment. Tatum said he tries to avoid smoking inside the apartment, around his stepchildren. Under the prohibition, he wouldn’t even be allowed to smoke there. Photo: Bob Owen/rowen@express-news.net / rowen@express-news.net

Norma Garcia, who lives in the Wheatley Courts, smokes in front of her apartment. Photo: Bob Owen/rowen@express-news.net / rowen@express-news.net

Norma Garcia, who lives in the Wheatley Courts, smokes in front of her apartment. Photo: Bob Owen/rowen@express-news.net / rowen@express-news.net

[1rudeboy]

What can possibly go wrong?

[Responsibility2nd]

[Uncle Ike]

First they came for the druggies, and you cheered because, well, they’re *druggies* and don’t need no steenkin’ rights anyway....

Then they came for the smokers, and you cheered, because smoking is just icky....

Then they came for the fatties, and you cheered, because who really wants to look at all those fat people??

You’re next - cheer about that....

[Road Warrior ‘04]

So, you can't smoke in the apartment and, as I understand it, not outside your apartment. You MUST go to a designated smoking area!

I don't care if this is public housing. It's still their castle! (paid for by us) What a bunch of BS!

[Mrs.Z]

Tobacco yes, but they won’t stop the crack smoking in the buildings.

[Grunthor]

He who pays the piper calls the tune.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Tobacco (legal) yes, but they won’t stop the crack (illegal) smoking in the buildings.

Just clarifying...

[TaxPayer2000]

A survey sent to all 6,029 households in January shows that a large majority of tenants support the no-smoking policy. Of the 200 residents who responded, 81 percent said they liked the idea, while 17 percent opposed it, and 2 percent said they had no opinion.

LOL! A LARGE majority! of the 200 people who responded! 162 people out of a survey sent to 6,209 households.

[Envisioning]

....public housing residents in San Antonio soon will add one more: their own homes

As a smoker I oppose any smoking bans, but, this is NOT their own home. It is PUBLIC housing, government owned. You want to do what you want in YOUR house, get off the government tit and buy your own house.

/rant off

[Grunthor]

First they came for the druggies, and you cheered because, well, it was a druggie that stuck a gun in my face and stole my wallet.

“Then they came for the smokers, and you cheered, because smoking killed both of my grandparents.

“Then they came for the fatties, and you cheered, because who really wants to look at all those fat people??”

Please. No one is coming for the fatties. They’re hard to kidnap.

[Responsibility2nd]

I don’t care if this is public housing. It’s still their castle! (paid for by us) What a bunch of BS!

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Don’t contradict yourself. If you and I pay for their “castle”, then you don’t think we have a say in what goes on there?

[Truth29]

"What can possibly go wrong"

Oh yes, let's see some inspector telling the local MS 13 gang bangers to stop smoking. Exchanging gun smoke for tobacco smoke if they are lucky. A machete might also be used.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Gangbangers and illegals won’t be affected by this at all.

[cripplecreek]

Dependency is slavery.

[Grunthor]

He who pays the piper calls the tune.

[kickonly88]

I’m all for it, the reason being private property rights. The housing authority owns it, they can do as they wish.

[MrB]

I’m all for making the dependent life “not so comfortable”,
so that, perhaps, these folks would look for a better way to live.

[ladyjane]

If you've ever lived in an apartment above a smoker you might feel differently about smoke in a multi-unit building.

I lived for a while in an apartment above a man who it turns out was going through a divorce. He would sit for hours right under my bedroom chain smoking. I couldn't even go into that room. My entire apartment smelled like an ashtray and I had to seal the bedroom off with tape.

You will probably suggest that I should have opened the windows. Right. Chimney effect. Worse.

It's still their castle!

If they want a castle let them go out and get a job and pay for it. I don't want to pay for their castle.

[dfwgator]

If they’re on public assistance, they don’t need to be spending taxpayer money on smokes.