Will the Public Housing Smoking Ban Include Electronic Cigarettes?

By David Bahr
Published December 1, 2016 5:13pm ET
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Will the Public Housing Smoking Ban Include Electronic Cigarettes?
On Wednesday, a different Castro was in the news: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development secretary Julián Castro decreed that all 3,100 local Public Housing Agencies must implement “smoke-free” policies for all indoor dwellings within the next 18 months. In essence, by late 2018, smoking will be banned inside any of the nation’s 940,000 […]

On Wednesday, a different Castro was in the news: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development secretary Julián Castro decreed that all 3,100 local Public Housing Agencies must implement “smoke-free” policies for all indoor dwellings within the next 18 months. In essence, by late 2018, smoking will be banned inside any of the nation’s 940,000 public housing units.

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