Sorry, you can't smoke in your own apartment

y100.com ^ | Aug. 30, 2010

[Free ThinkerNY]

TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Officials in Washington state say they'll consider moving the health battle over secondhand smoke into a new and contentious arena -- people's homes.

The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Board will consider a proposal next month to classify secondhand smoke as a "nuisance" in multi-unit housing, The Tacoma (Wash.) News Tribune reported Monday.

Backers of the measure say they want it incorporated in the state's landlord-tenant law.

"This is the last piece of the puzzle that needs to be placed," Nan Hogan, who helped write the proposed legislation, said. "We've got smoke-free motel rooms, smoke-free restaurants, smoke-free bars, smoke-free office buildings and even prisons. Why should we go home and have to breathe it there?"

Hogan is a member of the group People United for Smoke-free Housing.

In most multi-family structures, the group says, there is no practical way to seal one apartment from another.

[GOP_Lady]

"I simply turn on the Golden EIB Microphone and share my honest passions and beliefs with people. And they're free to go elsewhere. They're free to ignore; they're free to believe; they're free to be entertained, I don't care. They're free to do whatever they want. But a lot of people aren't free to smoke cigarettes where they want; they're not free to drink where they want; they're not free to eat the kind of food they want to eat; they're not free to eat trans fats; they're not free to drive certain places. Pretty soon we're going to be told what kind of cars we have to drive. I can't cause that. I can't restrict anybody's freedom. We've elected a guy who can, does, and wants to, all under the guise of saving us. So I appreciate the effort, and I appreciate somewhat losing my temper here. But don't compare me ever to an authoritarian who thinks so little of people that without him they can barely breathe on their own. Don't ever do that." LEARN IT, LOVE IT, LIVE IT! If one cannot understand Rush's words above, then one does not truly understand FREEDOM!

[GOP_Lady]

I thank God that I own my home and it’s paid for!

[PizzaDriver]

Worse Yet; Smokey, the Duplex Owner, can’t SMOKE in his 1/2 of the Duplex that HE owns????

[funfan]

They have that ordinance in Belmont, CA I live close by and was not surprised by the City Councils vote they are pretty liberal here. I was wondering if they do legalize pot in California and elsewhere for that matter will you be able to smoke pot in your apartment where cigarette smoking is prohibied? Talk about affecst of second hand smoke that is all we need here in Cali is more people without their senses

[Free in Texas]

This is kind of hard to read through the Pall Mall induced haze (cough!).

[Mortrey]

Just wait for the mooselimbs that live next door to ya to complain about that HORRIBLE smell of BACON cookin’ in the morning!!!!!

[Outlaw Woman]

There are some Freepers who will love this ... can you believe that? I'm continually stunned here (or would that be stuned?) when freepers come out for more regulation and then get extremely ugly if they are challenged.

[FloridianBushFan]

Another stupid law.

This has got me thinking though. For several years now there have been all these laws being passed to make smoking tobacco illegal around the country, but at the same time this country in many parts has been moving closer to making marijuana legal. So we go from outlawing one smoking product to making legal another smoking product. Really does not make sense.

[Wissa]

"This is the last piece of the puzzle that needs to be placed,"

That's what they always say. Just one more law, and then we'll be living in paradise.

[OneWingedShark]

What also doesn’t make sense is that we needed to pass a Constitutional Amendment to nationally prohibit a substance (which we repealed); and we now have national/federal regulation “intoxicating or mind-altering substances” and firearms via things like the BATFE and the DEA. I have yet to hear a good explanation [Constitutionally-based] of these agencies existence.

[Last Dakotan]

I thank God that I own my home and it’s paid for!

Stop paying your property taxes and the real owner will pay you a visit.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“I thank God that I own my home and it’s paid for!”

Give them 5 years, it will be illegal there.

And don't even think about disarming the mandatory cigarette smoke detector unit that will be required to be installed in your home.

[Joe 6-pack]

"I have yet to hear a good explanation [Constitutionally-based] of these agencies existence."

That's because there is no good Constitutionally based justification for them. They are all contingent on very fast and loose interpretations of the interstate commerce clause.

[mplsconservative]

Gosh! I knew I liked you on that Beck thread, and now I really do. Preach it sister! LOL

[taxtruth]

If you can’t smoke on your own property you don’t own it.Next it will be sex,food or drinking in your own property.

[Age of Reason]

I'm continually stunned here (or would that be stuned?) when freepers come out for more regulation and then get extremely ugly if they are challenged.

I agree.

If some people want to live in an apartment house where no tenents smoke, let private enterprise invent smoke-free apartment houses for them.

If other people want to smoke, let there be apartment houses for smokers.

[Theo]

I’m one Freeper who affirms this law. My wife and I lived three months in an apartment over a smoking woman. It was terrible, and contributed to my wife’s pregnancy nausia. We moved because it was intolerable, even though we had several air filters and spread baking soda everywhere. When you live in a communal situation, you need to be considerate of your community.

[handmade]

I am not a smoker, and I would prefer someone not smoke in my home- but this garbage is just wrong.

[r9etb]

When you live in a communal situation, you need to be considerate of your community.

Except, apparently, if you smoke. Then, it's always everybody else's fault if they don't like the smell of your cigarettes. Freedom apparently requires the rest of us to put up with having other people stink up our clothes.