Smoking is banned in public housing across the country as of July 30, 2018.

You cannot use:

• cigarettes,
• cigars, pipes, and
• hookahs (water pipes).
• Your housing authority may have banned Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS), too.

You cannot use tobacco products:

• in any public housing units,
• interior common areas, or
• outdoor areas within 25 feet of residential and office buildings (but see the next item).
• Your housing authority may have banned smoking in other areas, too, or may have made the entire grounds smoke-free.

Interior common areas include, but are not limited to:

• hallways,
• rental and administrative offices,
• community centers,
• day care centers,
• laundry centers,
• and similar structures.

You will have to:

• sign a lease amendment if you want to continue to live in public housing, and
• make sure that all members of your household, your guests and other persons under your control do not smoke in restricted areas or in outdoor areas designated smoke-free.

You could be evicted if you break the no-smoking rules. You would be violating a provision of your lease.

If you are facing eviction for breaking this rule, apply online [1] for free legal assistance or call 603 Legal Aid at 800-639-5290.

Get free help to quit smoking from:

• National Quitline [2]: 1-800-Quitnow
• American Lung Association Tobacco Quitline: [3] 1-800-LUNGUSA
• American Cancer Society, Get Help Quitting Tobacco [4]