Another one of the downsides to where I live
The new person on the bottom floor (other side) of my building is a smoker and there is constantly the faint scent of cigarette smoke wafting into my bedroom. I wish it were reasonable for us to write a bylaw banning smoking on the balconies.
June 23rd, 2006 at 10:13 am
That’s gross. I couldn’t live with that.
June 23rd, 2006 at 1:39 pm
That would bother me a lot.
Aren’t the balconies wood? There you go.
June 23rd, 2006 at 9:01 pm
Oh my, I would hate that. I am totally allergic to cigarettes. Does it make your clothes smell?
My neighbors (in my bldg) tend to do a lot of bbq’ing in our backyard - and when they do - the smell wafts into my bedroom. I hate hate hate it (partly because the smoke smell is bad - but also because I am a weird vegetarian who has this vague notion she can become contaminated by smelling meat smells - weird, I know).
June 23rd, 2006 at 10:55 pm
Why wouldn’t it be reasonable? If you can claim asthma or allergies, couldn’t you tell him how much it was affecting you? Just an idea.
June 24th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
Is it any more or less reasonable than banning, say, the boiling of pitch on balconies?
This is one of the things that makes me hesitate to buy a condo - the prospect of being stuck with smelly or noisy neighbors for years.
June 25th, 2006 at 12:24 am
It is rather unpleasant. And I can’t seriously claim allergies. Nor can I claim it is making anything smell, because it isn’t.
Shrinky, I can sympathise with the bbq thing — though I love the smell of bbq — because my old roommate used to make bacon every weekend, and my bedroom would stink of bacon constantly.
The balconies are wood, but we allow barbecues, so it would be odd to disallow cigarettes for that reason.
We’re thinking of seeing if the new tobacco laws can be extended to cover this — enclosed common areas can’t have smoking, and though I think the balcony counts as enclosed, maybe, it’s common property for individual use, not a common area. Otherwise, we can try a bylaw saying smoking is not allowed on the balconies, but that would be a very obvious way to get at one specific person and probably not worth the bother. (Also, maybe not enforceable in the middle of a lease.)