The US plans to ban smoking in public housing — but will it work?

http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/17/13987432/smoking-ban-public-housing-urban-development-health ^ | Dec 17, 2016 | Alessandra Potenza

[Drango]

“It is an infringement of the peoples [sic] civil liberties,” one public housing resident in Bay City, Michigan, wrote in a letter to the HUD. “What about the tenants who are wheelchair bound. Is government to tell them they cannot smoke in their own house? That is clearly discrimination.”

It's NOT your house.

[ronnie raygun]

Lets see the hopeless idiot politicians are realy doing something to make life better in public housing, forget about black on black crime murder rape and drugs in these houses. And they wonder why they lost

[jmacusa]

Oh yeah, this will work. Go in and tell homie he can’t smoke. Yeah, do that.

[umgud]

HUD announced this ban, but is it a law passed by congress? I don’t care one way or the other, but I have a huge problem with agencies having this kind of power.

[SandRat]

Only if violators are Arrested and Jailed.

[Company Man]

They ban illegal drugs also, I believe.

[relictele]

April Simpson has been living in the Queensbridge Houses, a public housing development in Queens, New York, her whole life. “From day one. I was born here,” she says, proudly.

Proudly? She's a parasite, smoker or otherwise. And, as usual, her arrogant entitlement mentality betrays the 'safety net for the downtrodden' rhetoric of liberal politicians.

[Jim from C-Town]

I have a huge problem with the whole idea of public housing.

[Menehune56]

Proud of 54 years in public housing? SMH.

[A_perfect_lady]

“From day one. I was born here,” she says, proudly.

... And you're still there??? That's ... that's not good. That's NOT GOOD!

[heterosupremacist]

They can’t stop the ghetto homies from smocking crack! Good luck with tobacco...

[gnawbone]

Don’t you like how this is going to happen once the Trump admin takes over?

If I were Trump and pull an Obama — “yeah, we’re not going to enforce that one - if you DemocRats ever get back in the White House you do it but we’re not getting blamed for your bull$h!t”

[arthurus]

It’s a no-go.

[arl295]

Sell the properties to private companies for redevelopment

let the free market create affordable housing

its how it used to work

[blam]

Isn’t this racist?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Can’t blame the evil Republicans for this, April.

[relictele]

When lefties use ‘clearly’ it translates as ‘we’re just throwing our usual buzzwords at the wall and hoping they stick.’

I’m not in favor of the nanny culture but if gummint squats are paragons of ‘equal housing’ then any policy affecting them is, according the gummint itself, nondiscriminatory.

[gnawbone]

I didn’t finish my thought ...

This would essentially end up being Trump evicting the poor, inner city black poor. The left would have a field day with it.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

My aunt died earlier this year from pulmonary fibrosis. Her smoking from the 1960s to the 1990s undoubtedly contributed to it.

My mother currently is on oxygen from a combination of COPD, lung sarcoidosis, asthma and allergies. Her smoking from the 1960s to 1995 undoubtedly contributed to the COPD and sarcoidosis.

Nonetheless, I hope Dr. Carson will reverse this draconian ban. As you have said yourself, Drango, these folks are addicts. As such, good luck in getting them all to quit with this edict. If we are going to impose this ban on our tenants (we being the taxpayers represented by Fedzilla), it would also behoove us to provide rehab services to help them quit.

Big, Uber-Federal Nanny State PING!

[Timpanagos1]

Better yet, if they smoke, evict them.

In New York cigarettes cost $14.00 a pack.

A pack a day smoker spends $5,110.00 per year on smoking.

if there are two people in the household that’s more than $10,000.00 a year.

If they can afford that, they can afford their own house.