[theDentist]

That is effing ridiculous, especially since it was allowed by their lease.

[clee1]

One day soon, every smoker will have to smoke withing a positive-pressure, super filtering booth to avoid offending someone or breaking a law.

[HEY4QDEMS]

ncluding a ventilation unit patched together with duct tape

Duhhhh I wonder why they call it "duct" tape?

[jocon307]

you're going to love this one!

[spudsmaki]

This is the next front for the smoking nazis. The latest public service ad is sponsored by mysmokefreeapartment.com . It's a way for tenants to petition the building owner to make it smoke free. That is, to throw out the smokers ala the restaurants.

The only good thing about the link is that it's dead.

[Publius6961]

Did clear definition of "Heavy Smoking" come out of this enlightened decision?

[nothingnew]

PUFF

FMCDH(BITS)

[snarks_when_bored]

The lease should have said no smoking allowed. That being said, smokers don't just impact their own insides; their smoke diffuses into the surrounding atmosphere, and then seeps through cracks in walls and through ductwork until it lends an odor to an entire building. Suppose that cigarette smoke smelled like hydrogen sulfide (rotten eggs); would defenders of indoor smoking be as likely to defend it then? Probably not. To some of us, the smell of cigarette smoke, even at a distance, is almost as offensive as the smell of rotten eggs.

[Raycpa]

More proof either smokers have no clue how offensive cig smoke is or smokers are supremely selfish.

[TnGOP]

This has nothing to do with this thread, but I'm adding it anyway. Today is four months tobacco free for me. I quit cold turkey on 2/16 from smoking 2+ pax a day. I just realized it has been 1/3 of a year.

[tahiti]

tobacco law specialists said the decision is one of the "nation's first to declare smoking a nuisance serious enough to become grounds for eviction.

''It is very important, because it is a sign that people are more aware of how dangerous second-hand smoke is," said Professor Richard Daynard, chairman of Northeastern University's Tobacco Products Liability Project, which tracks second-hand smoke litigation nationally."

how dangerous second-hand smoke is?"

Bullsh_t. This not about "dangerous second-hand smoke."

This is a "property rights" issue and victory.

I am a landlord and I decide what can and cannot be done on my property.

If, as a renter you do not like my decision, see you later.

[Just Kimberly]

''It is very important, because it is a sign that people are more aware of how dangerous second-hand smoke is," said Professor Richard Daynard, chairman of Northeastern University's Tobacco Products Liability Project, which tracks second-hand smoke litigation nationally."

Such a crock. Like these guys really CARE about our health and the health of others. If that were the case, they would be going after the Drug companies who continue, each day, to pump man-made substances into innocent victims, who believe what their doctor has told them.

Why not go after the real problem? Lies presented to the public?

AND - if smoking was allowed in the building - why was that not pushed in this case? Apparently the amount of smoking was not stated in the lease, just permitted.

The way Jury's seem to think these days baffles the mind in some cases. 'Just the facts, please ma'am.' Leave out the propaganda, and we may get somewhere with justice.

Who am I kidding. JK

[MEGoody]

after neighbors complained of the smoke odors filtering into their apartments.

This sounds like the landlord's fault. If smoke odors can filter into apartments, so can lots of other things.

This couple obviously should appeal.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I've only lived in buildings where smoking was prohibited. No rule against burning nauseating incense 24-hours a day, though. Hypocrites.

[TheForceOfOne]

What's next? getting evicted for being fat, ugly, the car you drive, race, sex, age, religion, job, political affiliation, etc. etc. etc.

[Nathan Zachary]

"South Boston couple could be evicted from their rented water-view loft for heavy smoking"

I would imagine that this also includes dope smoking. After all, it releases the same toxins as tobacco does, -minus the niccotine, and plus THC, which as 1stFreedom says, I shouldn't have to tolerate.

[cyborg]

How about a good air filter??

[Protagoras]

The only thing worse than the tyranny of big government is the tyranny of your neighbors and local thugs.

[desherwood7]

Isn't this what George Orwell wrote about in 1984?

[McGavin999]

I guess it never occured to this person who has asthma to go out and buy an air purifier. I guess once the cigarette smokers are gone, she's going to be completely cured.

One of the things I noticed after I quit smoking for 5 years was that the world smells really, really bad. In addition, a curious sidenote is that people who are super sensitive to the smell of smoke have really bad body oder. It's not that they're not clean, they just smell really bad. It must be a chemical thing, perhaps that's why they are so sensitive to the smell of smoke and other things.