Posted on 08/28/2022 10:05:28 AM PDT by Drango
Aug 26 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld a ban on smoking in federally subsidized public housing.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) properly enacted a 2016 rule requiring state and local public housing agencies to ban cigarettes, cigars and pipes inside housing units and indoor common areas, and outside within 25 feet of those spaces.
Six tenants and a smokers' rights group, the New York City Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment ("NYC Clash"), challenged the ban, known as the Smoke Free Rule.
They said it improperly invaded their privacy and violated due process by preventing them from engaging in lawful activity -- using tobacco -- inside the home.
But in Friday's 2-0 decision, Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan said HUD provided "considerable" evidence that the rule helped protect residents against the health risks of secondhand smoke, prevent fires and reduce property maintenance costs.
"The department adequately substantiated its rationales for the rule and did not act arbitrarily and capriciously in promulgating it," the judge wrote. ~snip
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Guessing it’s just tobacco.
Or pay a “smokers’ premium”.
On my walks in San Francisco, I occasionally pass by public housing complexes. A near-permanent feature is the stench of marijuana smoke wafting from the open windows. If any sort of smoking ban is being enforced there, it’s apparently only applicable to tobacco.
Hippies used to use patchouli to cover the weed smell. Now the smokers will use weed to cover the tobacco smell.
Eons ago, I was a landlord of sorts. I had a problem tenant, SOB would pay his rent, claimed he didn’t have the money. He did have the money to buy cigarettes, though ...
Got his sorry ass evicted.
Reading the thread makes clear that blacks and smokers are violent thugs and addicts who cannot control themselves ...
Perhaps the “public housing” they should be in is the type that’s surrounded by multiple layers of chain link and razor wire and is heavily guarded, where all the living spaces have bars on the windows and doors.
Re: #44, the SOB would NOT pay his rent.
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