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The Washington Post has a good story this week detailing how more nonsmokers who live in apartments and condos are speaking up about secondhand smoke intruding into their living spaces. The article notes that while it used to be assumed that smokers have a right to smoke in their homes, more people are realizing that nonsmokers [...] “That’s life.” So muttered the woman next to me at a community meeting convened last night in the Greenbelt Community Center last night to discuss the problem of intrusion of secondhand smoke from one apartment to another. The woman was not very sympathetic to the plight of nonsmokers. What an appalling comment. I wonder how she [...] For the past year, Jacque Petterson has been collecting stories and links to news articles about smokefree housing – public housing complexes that have gone smokefree, lawsuits filed over secondhand smoke issues in multi-unit dwellings, even information about fires caused by cigarettes. Now she has put those in Smoke-Free Housing Magazine, an online publication that has [...] New York, which was one of the early leaders in the smokefree workplace movement, may be a trendsetter when it comes to smokefree housing. The Wall Street Journal reports that buildings are increasingly going smokefree. At least half a dozen Manhattan co-ops are expected to ask shareholders during annual meetings this spring to vote on an all-out [...] Here’s a case that apartment management companies everywhere should pay attention to: A judge in Nassau County, N.Y., ruled that a nonsmoking tenant should be permitted to break her lease and pay reduced rent because her complaints about a smoking neighbor were not addressed. The company had sued the tenant for $12,000 in unpaid rent. Here’s [...] Children who live in apartments are exposed to secondhand smoke even if no one smokes in their unit, a new study has found. Researchers analyzed the blood of children who live in smokefree homes and found that kids living in apartments have a 45 percent increase in cotanine levels in their blood than kids who live [...] Three cheers to Santa Clara County, Calif., which just passed a law making apartments and condos smokefree. The law also applies to outdoor eating areas of restaurants and common areas of multiunit dwellings, the San Jose Mercury-News reports. This is huge; the county is one of just a handful of jurisdictions, all of them in California, [...] Recently, The Washington Post ran an article containing guidelines about sharing walls with neighbors. It noted that “odors, especially from Secondhand smoke is more than just a bad odor – it is a health hazard. Santa Monica’s City Council is forging ahead in protecting residents from secondhand smoke. The Council has passed a measure making apartment balconies and patios smokefree. The new law makes areas within 25 feet of doors and windows of multi-unit buildings smokefree, the Santa Monica Daily Press reports. The city has already made outdoor dining areas and [...] |
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