[kingu]

A 1999 California tobacco study found that 47.2 percent of smokers in that state had smoke-free homes. In 1993, only 20.1 percent of smokers had restrictions on smoking in their houses, according to the California Department of Health.

What a joke this statistic is in relation to this article. In California, you can have a mass murder in a home and people will still buy it. Crack houses, drug labs, porns - compared to those, the smoking issue is a non-issue. Besides, it's a provable fact that the glues from cabinets, the plastics used in creating the carpets, and the solvents in house paints and in adhesives used in flooring are a lot worse than 'left over' smoke will ever be.

Home prices have climbed another 20 percent in the last year around here. No one cares if the house reeks of smoke, 'cause if they wait to find one that doesn't, the home prices will rise yet again.

[Gabz]

And what you are saying is not much different than what I encountered in Delaware.

I helped close down the crack house that had been across the street from me. It got to the point where I was on a first name relationship with the dispatcher of the local police department because I called so often.

I worked real hard in the years I lived in that neighborhood to help clean it up, and even when I was planning to move I had no intentions of changing my attitude.

They all knew I was the "narc" but as soon as the FOR SALE sign went up in front of my house they thought they had it made. Boy-o-boy were they so wrong.