Comment: Smoking neighbors has been an issue that has come up many times. Smoke, like fragrance, travels easily between apartments and in common hallways to other units. Many times, smokers will think they can sneak a cigarette if no one sees them, but the smell always gives them away. It's nice to see this getting some attention.
Snuffing Out Puffing Neighbors
Multiunit housing is one of the few remaining places where the boundary lines between smokers and everybody else are still as amorphous as the wispy streaks left by a cigarette. But emboldened by renters like the Corleys and condo owners who are no longer content to hold their noses around unwanted secondhand smoke, a coalition of anti-smoking groups is preparing to scale the walls of one of the last smoker havens. Their tactics promise to be subtle: condition the public through education at the local level, roll out a bunch of examples – landlords or condo associations that banned smoking voluntarily – and gradually make smoke-free housing the norm.
