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Health/Medical Title: No Smoking Allowed In Philadelphia Public Housing Units The ban starts April 9. No Smoking Allowed In Philadelphia Public Housing Units The ban starts April 9. Parker Riley Written By Parker Riley Posted April 3, 2018 If you or someone you know lives in public housing in Philadelphia, there are only a few more days to smoke cigarettes in the housing unit. According to CBS in Philly, starting Monday, the housing authority says the smoke-free policy applies to all units. SEE ALSO: Tiffany Haddish’s Best Moments At The Oscars & And She Wasn’t Even A Winner Or Nominee In July of last year, Philadelphia banned smoking outside of public housing units. But this new policy includes smoking inside of the house or apartment and after the fourth violation, there would be an eviction. Philadelphia Housing Authority President and CEO Kelvin A. Jeremiah said via a statement, “The goal of the smoke-free policy and procedures is not to evict individuals and families. It is actually to provide additional support for cessation, to identify smoking as a real risk to health and safety. Managers and other employees will not be serving as the smoking police.” Reportedly, there have been a number of fires in housing units due to cigarettes. The smoking ban in public housing actually began with the Obama administration. Back in November of 2016, former Housing Secretary Julián Castro said, “Every child deserves to grow up in a safe, healthy home free from harmful second-hand cigarette smoke.” Smoking kills 480,000 Americans each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Poster Comment: I wonder if this includes crack and weed? Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 4. #2. To: sneakypete (#0) (Edited) Smoking kills 480,000 Americans each year, And it skews downscale - lots more smoking among the welfare class than the working class. So, why is it that we want to stop them smoking again? (I'm in a "Malthusian Solution" mode today.)
#4. To: Vicomte13 (#2) And it skews downscale - lots more smoking among the welfare class than the working class. Other than the fact that we,the taxpayer provide free (to them) medical coverage for any disease or illness that strikes them,I can't think of any. AFATG,I suspect we pay to bury most of them,too.
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But smokers die years sooner than others. So yes, we have to pay to keep their suffering down during their final year or two, but we have to do that for everybody anyway - Medicare is also welfare, gussied up to pretend it's not - every death of everybody over age 65 is accompanied by a big welfare layout, all of those final illness Medicare payments. Accepting as a given that we're going to be paying to ease the transition from life to death of all poor people and everybody over 65, the issue then reduces to a matter of how long they live on welfare (recognizing, too, that Social Security is also welfare, just in a gussied up package to not call it that). Smokers live 5 to 7 years less than non-smokers. So, that's 5 to 7 years fewer welfare payments to smokers versus non-smokers - and we end up paying for the death illnesses of both anyway. Net net, smoking is good for the budget, because it brings in a lot of tax revenue and reduces welfare payments (particularly Social Security) by a half-decade or more.
#9. To: sneakypete, Vicomte13 (#4) I suspect we pay to bury most of them,too. I know what are you thinking - cheaper would be to let crows and dogs to clean poor suckers away. Very picturesque idea. Or perhaps you would utilize them in hot dogs? Utilitarians would approve. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift:
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