Tobacco Bill

[Gertch]

And how terrible for me to NOT want to get lung cancer and die! WhatEVER was I thinking?!?

Second hand smoke has little or no health consequences. -http://tinyurl.com/274v4o

Participants 118 094 adults enrolled in late 1959 in the American Cancer Society cancer prevention study (CPS I), who were followed until 1998. Particular focus is on the 35 561 never smokers who had a spouse in the study with known smoking habits.

Conclusions The results do not support a causal relation between environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality, although they do not rule out a small effect. The association between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and coronary heart disease and lung cancer may be considerably weaker than generally believed.

 

[Balrog]

I've decided to change my name to "Tobacco Bill".

 

[Venardhi]

Apparently this doesn't effect products labeled as cigars, so clove cigarettes at least will mostly just be changed a bit and rebranded as "filtered cigars/cigarillos" . . . did I mention this whole thing is retarded and pointless?

 

[Warp Core Breach]

Eh, as long as it looks good. They'll worry about spinning it later.

 

[DeafPoet]

I limit the volume when playing music or watching a movie specifically so that I don't bother other people who live in the building. The funny thing is, excessive noise is something I can be evicted for if people repeatedly complain. But for some reason someone piping their smoke into my apartment doesn't seem to rise to the same level.

It's just so annoying finding a reasonable enough apartment situation, and then a few months later the 'luck of the draw' gives you an inconsiderate smoker to deal with.

The place I lived previously was kind of a standard 'bunch of early-mid twenties' types renting rooms in a house. The house rules were no smoking. Then of course the lease holder's smoker sister moves in without any consultation . And naturally her 'smoking patio' happens to be right by my bedroom window. It was also amazing how all these cigarette butts ended up in the lawn all of a sudden that "weren't hers" as well. That was very plausible...

I'm sympathetic to the average non-smoker, but it sounds like you need to lighten up, man.

What type of building do you live in? An apartment proper? Or is it a house situation? Is the tenant below you violating building rules by smoking indoors? If not, did you know the rules when you moved in?

An apartment proper. The shared house was the previous situation. I'm pretty sure smoking indoors doesn't violate any apartment policy, as that sort of thing seems very non-standard around here. And I'll 'lighten up' when I don't wake up at 3am coughing because after I fell asleep my entire apartment ended up smelling like an ashtray. It seems like the smoke seeps in pretty easily through the floor/walls, I didn't think it could be that bad. Seems like generally very solid construction, and sound has to be really loud to carry from one apartment to the next.

Having the 'right' to smoke in your own place is fine, but it really should be up to you to make sure it doesn't get into someone else's space.

I feel for your plight, man. Nobody should have to inhale anything they don't want to. But you moved into a building where smoking's allowed.

Frankly, you've forfeited your right to legitimately complain about it.