%0 Journal Article
%T Public Support for Smoke
%A Jonathan D. Klein
%A Jonathan P. Winickoff
%A Karen Wilson
%A Mark A. Gottlieb
%A Robert C. McMillen
%A Susanne Tanski
%J Western Journal of Nursing Research
%@ 1552-8456
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0193945919826238
%X The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently issued rules requiring that federally funded authorities administering public housing must have smoke-free policies. Importantly, this requirement does not extend to Section 8 housing. Under the Section 8 program, public housing vouchers provide subsidies for private rental housing to low-income residents. This study examines support for smoke-free policy options in Section 8 housing. Using a nationally representative survey of adults, we asked 3,070 respondents to agree or disagree with two potential policies. The majority (71%) supported prohibiting indoor smoking everywhere inside buildings that have Section 8 housing units. Alternatively, respondents were less supportive (38%) of a policy to prohibit smoking only inside units with Section 8 subsidies, and allowing smoking in nonsubsidized units. Prohibiting smoking in all units in multiunit housing (MUH) buildings would help protect the health of both the 2.2 million households who receive Section 8 subsidies and their neighbors
%K secondhand smoke
%K public housing
%K smoking
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0193945919826238