Support for prohibition

A quarter of US citizens would support making smoking illegal, according to a piece in the Brevard Times based on the results of a new Gallup Poll and relayed by the TMA.
This support is one percent higher than has been measured previously by Gallup.
The proposal has garnered between 11 percent and 24 percent support during the nearly three decades that Gallup has been tracking it.
Meanwhile, the Gallop poll, from a July 1-11 polling, found that 59 percent of people supported banning smoking in public places.
The poll has particular significance now because the US Department of Housing and Urban Development is preparing to enforce a smoking ban in all public housing across the country.
The Smoke-Free Public Housing Rule was finalized on December 5, 2016, and became effective on February 3, 2017.
All public housing associations must comply with the rule and implement smoke-free policies within 18 months of the effective date, no later than July 31, 2018.