Among thousands of outgoing Obama fatwas: Ban on smoking in all Fed housing

[Anti Federalist]

Obama Administration to Implement Smoking Ban in All Public Housing

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...ublic-housing/

A smoking ban will be put into place in public housing buildings nationwide, according to a new federal rule.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) said the no-smoking rule will go into effect in 2017, but “public housing agencies would have a year and a half to put smoke-free policies in place,” The New York Times reported.

Officials say up to 1.2 million households could be affected.

The ban will especially affect the nation’s largest public housing agency, the New York City Housing Authority, where 178,000 apartments fall under its jurisdiction. The agency currently has no policy on smoking in its housing units.

Some public housing agencies have voluntarily adopted smoke-free policies that have gone into effect in an estimated 200,000 homes.

HUD proposed the ban a year ago in its campaign to combat secondhand smoke exposure.

The rule bans “cigarettes, cigars, pipes and hookahs (or water pipes) — but not electronic cigarettes — from being smoked in all living units, indoor common areas, administrative offices and all outdoor areas within 25 feet of housing and office buildings.”

Housing agencies that already enforce the ban say they enforce the rule through warnings, fines, counseling, and aids to quit smoking such as nicotine patches.

“We don’t see this as a policy that is meant to end in a whole lot of evictions,” HUD Secretary Julian Castro said. “We’re confident that public housing authority staff can work with residents so that that can be avoided.”

The city of Boston approved a smoking ban in all of its public housing facilities in 2008, NJ Advance Media reported.

Boston also approved a smoking ban in city-run parks in 2013.

[tod evans]

It's for their own good comrade..

[Slave Mentality]

Ban public housing.

[Anti Federalist]

Ban public housing.

Ban "public" health care and all manners of other "public" things.

See where this is going people?

[Danke]

I doubt anyone has the cojones (to venture into public housing) to enforce this one.

[nobody's_hero]

As a smoker and a taxpayer, I've got mixed feelings on this.

I'm leaning more towards: you ought not be spending money on cigs if you're living in public housing. I'm paying for a roof over your head and that fungible money allows you to fund habits you'd otherwise have to sacrifice.

Now if I felt that this was a slippery slope towards government telling us that we can't smoke on private property even though the property owner has no issue with it . . .

actually they already do that.

Best case scenario is that this pisses off enough people that they get off their asses and get their own place on their own dime. And if that happens, i'll even let 'em bum a cig off me.

[oyarde]

Whatever , I still am not giving that pole smoker Obama a cigarette.

[angelatc]

Ban public housing is my first choice. Second - if you can afford cigarettes you shouldn't live in pubic housing anyway.

But AF is right. See where this is going indeed.

The storefront we rent has apartments upstairs. One of them had two single Moms sharing a place. They got into a spat and ended up calling Family Services on each other. The Mom that didn't move out is a smoker. When they came to interview us about her habits, they specifically asked if she smoked inside with the child there.

I asked if that was illegal now, and the 300 lb apple shaped 25 year old government worker literally narrowed her eyes....creepy as hell.

The thing is - this was a trap. Her former roommate called them because she would go outside to smoke when the kid was asleep. That's apparently a sin against the state now. Even though I have lived in houses where I was farther away from my sleeping kids being inside than she was when she went outside.

They are never going away. We are so screwed.

[TheTexan]

Her former roommate called them because she would go outside to smoke when the kid was asleep.

She left her children unattended in the apartment all alone!!?!??

Does she want her kids to die????

[VIDEODROME]

Can they smoke outside or switch to Vaping?

[angelatc]

Can they smoke outside or switch to Vaping?

I did not ask. We testified that we had certainly never observed such irresponsible behavior.

[Anti Federalist]

Ban public housing is my first choice. Second - if you can afford cigarettes you shouldn't live in pubic housing anyway.

But AF is right. See where this is going indeed.

The storefront we rent has apartments upstairs. One of them had two single Moms sharing a place. They got into a spat and ended up calling Family Services on each other. The Mom that didn't move out is a smoker. When they came to interview us about her habits, they specifically asked if she smoked inside with the child there.

I asked if that was illegal now, and the 300 lb apple shaped 25 year old government worker literally narrowed her eyes....creepy as hell.

The thing is - this was a trap. Her former roommate called them because she would go outside to smoke when the kid was asleep. That's apparently a sin against the state now. Even though I have lived in houses where I was farther away from my sleeping kids being inside than she was when she went outside.

They are never going away. We are so screwed.

We could make them go away...there is a way...

[TheTexan]

We could make them go away...there is a way...

Reported

[CCTelander]

We could make them go away...there is a way...

Several, actually. But most "liberty advocates" would rather just vote harder. And bitch. And whine.

[Dr.3D]

Good thing he doesn't live in public housing.