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Smoke-free Apartment Buildings

SMOKE-FREE APARTMENT BUILDINGS APPEAL TO TENANTS

Nearly half of Ontario's apartment dwellers say second-hand smoke seeps into their homes, and most of them would likely choose a smoke-free building if they could, says an anti-smoking group.
Ref. www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/03/27/smoking.html

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This is an interesting topic because it really hits "home" (pardon the pun) with smokers. How can a person be banned from living in a place because they smoke?

In the building that I manage, probably half of the residents smoke - some of them really heavily - and I've had the issue of "seepage" come up just recently. A wall had to be broken out to repair a plumbing leak between two apartments where one tenant smokes and the other doesn't. Ever since the repair, the non-smoker says the smoke is coming in through the wall. So apparently the repair wasn't done correctly.

Sometimes it's hard for the non-smokers to keep a door or window open on nice days because of the smokers who have their doors and windows open.

This is a really tough issue to deal with, and I will not be surprised to find it coming to our neighborhood soon! At this point in time, it is illegal to discriminate against smokers.