When my tenants stop buying alcohol, cigarettes ,and lotto tickets then I’ll worry ...

Smoking any cigarettes, a cigar, or pipe, or using snuff or chewing tobacco?

There are multiple cigarette burns in the vinyl throughout the unit - reason I will replace.

As far as the mismanagement goes - the section 8 property does look somewhat rundown and unkempt but I think the main issue is that the residents are just kinda hanging out on the lawn and steps smoking cigarettes and drinking.

Even with a few gnarly evictions of crazy inherited tenants under my belt the worst I’ve had was old furniture left, dog turds and cigarette butts on the carpet and human turds un-flushed in the toilet (no upper-deckers yet thankfully).

It will accept one small dog under 30 pounds, no cats or smokers.

And if they are smokers who smoke inside, then, no way. 

Smokers.8.

I don't want to rent to smokers.

100% agree with Nathan's criteria.If even after those criteria you have more than 1 qualified applicant, you have a few other options, as long as you apply the same requirements equally to everyone.I verify employment, and call previous landlords for references.If on the showing the tenant smells like smoke and you don't want smokers in your house, you could pass over somebody for that.