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U.S. ban on smoking in public housing is upheld
Reuters ^ | August 26, 2022 | Jonathan Stempel

Posted on 08/28/2022 10:05:28 AM PDT by Drango

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To: AlaskaErik

Housing recipient: “Say what? I can’t fire up a blunt in my own crib?”

Companion: “They was only talkin’ bout cigarettes.”

Housing Recipient: “That is one big relief.”


21 posted on 08/28/2022 10:40:47 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: dljordan

“It is great to be the King”

Btw almost everyone “takes the King’s money” one way or the other—even if they work for a subcontractor of a subcontractor of a subcontractor of a government contractor.

The King has almost everyone on the payroll directly or indirectly.


22 posted on 08/28/2022 10:41:28 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Drango

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.


23 posted on 08/28/2022 10:42:32 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: Drango

Hey, as long as meth and pot smoking is still okay, all is hunky dory. 🤪


24 posted on 08/28/2022 10:42:39 AM PDT by ANKE69
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To: Drango

How is this not racist in the same way as the law outlawing menthol cigarettes?
It is getting tougher to be Kool. /ha ha


25 posted on 08/28/2022 10:43:51 AM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: Drango

BTW - wasn’t 0bama living in public housing for 8 years and lighting up?


26 posted on 08/28/2022 10:45:13 AM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: Drango
SWEEEEEET. If you need assistance for housing, you don't need to have an expensive habit/addiction.

Feel the same way about firearms ownership?

27 posted on 08/28/2022 10:45:50 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Drango

guns are next


28 posted on 08/28/2022 10:45:59 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Drango

There’s your actual systemic racism…


29 posted on 08/28/2022 10:46:03 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: DIRTYSECRET
That’s right. Tell blacks what they can’t do. That would be better than the Walmart fights.

I'd bet most smokers in public housing just ignore the prohibition on smoking inside.

What are they going to do? Kick them out? LOL!

30 posted on 08/28/2022 10:49:14 AM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: Drango

pot too???


31 posted on 08/28/2022 10:51:44 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Drango

Once your rights come from the government, they can be taken away by the government.

The goal of our dictators is that everyone will be beholden to the government for their housing, food, and health care, not just the “poor”. What they provide one day, they can take away the next, especially if they do not like your voting history.

People can cheer this decision, but what if the government next decides that only CNN or MSNBC can be played in government housing projects. After all, it’s for their health.


32 posted on 08/28/2022 10:52:45 AM PDT by CFW
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To: AlaskaErik

No different than government contracts—restrictive but on the teat!


33 posted on 08/28/2022 11:13:32 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Drango

I thought all the cool kids switched to vaping.


34 posted on 08/28/2022 11:42:34 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: newzjunkey

This smoking rule doesnt prevent them from smoking, and buying cigarettes, though.

So it doesn’t do what you think it does.


35 posted on 08/28/2022 11:46:04 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: old curmudgeon

Yep...my Polish friend yold me about that...temperature of apartments controlled by the state.


36 posted on 08/28/2022 11:53:26 AM PDT by goodnesswins (The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders while ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
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To: Drango

When the ‘rats and their buds in the WEF gain complete control we’ll all be in Public Housing and they will ban not only smoking but motor vehicles, firearms, drinking, cook-outs, and sexual relations between males and females!


37 posted on 08/28/2022 12:05:20 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Democrat politicians and voters are dangerous psychopaths. They confirm it everyday.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Another shot of you will have nothing and do as your told and you will like it.


38 posted on 08/28/2022 1:35:43 PM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: Drango

Ban smoking today — ban romantic endeavors tomorrow.


39 posted on 08/28/2022 1:43:17 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Drango

I cannot believe that this rule is being enforced. Any police or whatever that tries to enforce this will have guns and knives pulled on them. At least in some of the so called public housing for useless eaters. For the most part. They are living (scamming) off the government in a 1000 different ways.


40 posted on 08/28/2022 1:52:26 PM PDT by dennisw
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