Editor’s Note: Efforts to weaponize poverty, i.e., policies that use a low income population segment’s economic status as the fulcrum in an attempt to alter behavior, can and do backfire. See, Weaponizing Poverty.
From: Gothamist
One week after Mayor de Blasio declared the cigarette industry “public enemy number one” with a package of bills aimed to limit tobacco sales, City Council Member Donovan Richards heard testimony Thursday on a bill that would ban smoking cigarettes, cigars and pipes in all future residential buildings built or rehabilitated using city subsidies.
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Council Member Richards was inspired by a plan on the federal level to ban smoking in public housing developments, according to spokesman Jordan Gibbons.
