[Drango]

If you can afford to buy cigarettes, TAXPAYERS don't need to subsidize your housing. DUH

[Lean-Right]

There’s going to a lot of calls
to maintenance to fix bathroom
exhaust fans. Next will be
cameras in every room to make
sure the citizens comply.
I don’t condone smoking, but
I believe in the right to do
so. All this is going to do is
make cigarette smoking on par
with drugs. Almost impossible
to stop, without more taxpayer
dollars to support enforcement.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

Live on the governments dime the government can run your life how THEY see fit!!!!

[unixfox]

Let me know when you stop these grifters from destroying OUR property. Most of them look like slums.

Just sayin.

[jmaroneps37]

Good luck trying to enforce this one.

[Flaming Conservative]

Oh, sure. And it’s also illegal to let anyone not on the rental agreement live there, illegal to abuse or neglect children,there, and illegal to do drugs there, but those laws are not enforced, either. Besides, the ACLU or SPLC will be filing lawsuits against the government in no time.

[CodeToad]

“If you can afford to buy cigarettes, TAXPAYERS don’t need to subsidize your housing. DUH “

Excellent point! If you can burn money, stop using mine to do it!

[TigersEye]

The nationwide ban on smoking in public housing was implemented nearly two years after the rule was passed by the Obama administration in 2016.

Dems da rulz on da 0bama plantation.

[DAC21]

Lots of luck enforcing that, what a joke. Guaranteed it will result in brawls, shootings at which point no one will be dumb enough to try to enforce it. Tobacco is one thing, tell them you can't smoke their Mary Jane. Death sentence.

[Lurker]

Good luck enforcing that on the south and west sides of Chicago.

L

[hanamizu]

Here’s a link to a lovely public housing area that will soon be smoke free!

https://www.propublica.org/article/hud-evict-residents-public-housing-cairo-southern-illinois

As you can see, it’s from Cairo, Ill, a truly sad little town.

[Fedora]

[Thank You Rush]

“”The ban is expected to save government housing agencies $153 million a year in repairs and health care costs,””

“health care costs” - that’s stretching it, isn’t it? Of course there’s nothing in the regulation pertaining to ANY health care costs but by golly, it’s going to save money there!

[lastchance]

I don’t think applauding government paternalism is a good precedent for Conservatives.

[Pirate Ragnar]

“If you can afford to buy cigarettes, TAXPAYERS don’t need to subsidize your housing. DUH”

Are liquor, sugar, fatty goods “banned” as well? So if taxpayers pay for it, the government can control what you can and can’t do with a product that is legal. We’re from the government and we are here to help you decide what to do with your body. The government is hiding their fascist tendencies by saying the taxpayers pay for it.

[NFHale]

Another piece of Obama that needs to be erased.

I’m not a smoker, don’t care for it, but if someone else wants to do so, I’m fine with it.

And since this is from The Error Era, it needs to be removed.

[SkyPilot]

They mean cigarettes, right?

[Brown Deer]

[Eleutheria5]

When you can’t afford a pack, you buy loosies. It’s illegal for stores to sell them, but in poor neighborhoods they do. Just Open a pack or ten, keep the loose cigs neatly tucked away in a drawer, and back in my smoking days they charged ten cents for a loose cigarette, no taxes no nothing. Probably gone up now.

[Elsie]

Smoking banned in public housing nationwide, effective today

Yeah... sure...

[fella]

Let the Jonesing begin.

Oh . . . and it’s Trump’s fault.

Just another landmine left behind by “The Great ObamaNation”.