Alaska aims to ban smoking in public housing by spring

The federal government is giving public housing agencies nationwide 18 months to implement a ban on smoking, but the state of Alaska is looking to crack down on tobacco much sooner.
KYUK-AM reports the director of the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, Cathy Stone, says the state’s ban on smoking in public housing developments could take effect as soon as April or May. She says Alaska already had its own smoke-free policy in the works when the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Dev