So HUD is angling to ban smoking in public housing? What the Fuck??

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171. "...a cancer on our society..."

As someone who has recently lost several loved ones to smoking induced cancer, I find the use of the phrase "a cancer on our society" in a post defending smokers' rights to be highly ironic.

And I doubt "the legal/prison industrial complex" had a whole lot to do with promulgating this particular regulation.

I could say, on the other hand, that the whole libertarian "smokers' rights" movement is just another "tool of the medical industry/big pharma complex" which makes an enormous profit from the treatment of lung, esophageal, throat, oral, and other cancers, not to mention asthma, birth defects, emphysema, chronic pulmonary obstructive disorder, etc. etc. And then of course there's Big Tobacco--remember them? And that these profits are derived disproportionately off the backs of people who are low income, and can least afford not only these illnesses, but the income drain that is tobacco addiction.

But then again I think linking this particular development to some over-arching conspiracy, big government or otherwise, is pure hyperbole.

BTW, I speak also as a former resident of public housing, who would have had no problem whatsoever with a no-smoking rule in my building.