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Launches crusade to ban smoking in public housing
Jump to full article: Boston (MA) Herald, 2010-01-31
Author: Jessica Fargen General Assignment Reporter
Intro: Mayor Thomas M. Menino is opening a new front in his war against tobacco: the city's cigarette-riden housing projects, which he vows to make smoke-free in the next four years.
"What we are trying to do is make a healthier environment for people who work and live in our city," Menino told the Herald.
By this summer, smoking could be banned in more than 100 new units in Boston Housing Authority public housing, which currently sees rates of smoking 50 percent higher than the general population. According to a 2006 city survey, 15.5 percent of nonpublic housing residents smoke, compared to 23 percent of BHA renters.
"They smoke in the hallways so everyone else has the fumes coming in under their door," said Phyllis Corbitt, who lives in Southie's Old Colony. "That's what I have to live with now, and I don't smoke but I'm getting second-hand smoke anyways."
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