HUD wants to stop Smoking inside their Apartments

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is working to ban the use of smoking products inside their buildings. This means if regulations are passed there will no smoking of cigarettes, cigars and pipes.
This would bar people living in public housing from smoking tobacco not only in indoor common areas and administrative offices, and not only within 25 feet of the buildings, but also in their own apartments.
HUD said the proposed rule is an effort to protect housing residents from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke.
HUD said the rule will help improve the health of 760,000 children and help public housing agencies save more than $153 million in health care, repairs and preventable fires.
Since 2009, HUD has asked public housing managers to implement nonsmoking policies voluntarily, but many, were against the change.
At least for now, tenants can still smoke in their apartments.
There are several HUD complexes in Coffee County.