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Menino pushes to ban smoking in public housing 

Jump to full article: The Daily Free Press (Boston University), 2010-02-09
Author: Stacey Falardeau

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Mayor Thomas Menino is looking to mitigate the effects of secondhand smoke with an initiative that will ban smoking in future Boston Housing Authority public residences.

Menino told The Boston Herald he hopes to ban smoking in at least 100 new residences by this summer.

The new smoke-free housing, which will include residences at Franklin Hill in Dorchester, Washington-Beech in Roslindale and Old Colony, will make up less than two percent of all Boston Housing Authority public housing, according to the article.

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