I was speaking of PROPERTY rights on behalf of the smokers.
Your viewpoint is anti-liberty, FRiend. It is far from remotely conservative.
Anti-Liberty, what a pack of BS! It’s conservative to “conserve”people too. I suppose you are likely a smoker and don’t like seeing your “right to kill” your fellow citizens hampered. I own a small commercial office building. I am, by law, required to post and enforce anti-smokling laws on all of my tenants. They many not smoke in their offices and have to be fifty feet from a doorway to light up (that’s the law). This, in a place where people only work, not live. In a multiple-tenant living facility like an apartment complex or coop, I fail to see the logic of allowing anyone to infringe on others in a place that is people’s place to live by reason of their filthy smoking habit. It is bad enough that smoking is a disgusting, evil-smelling activity, but it is also a known health hazard. Sorry to disappoint, but people’s health takes precedence over whatever “property rights” exist. When you live in close proximity to others one would think you would be considerate of them.
The issue here is whose “property rights” we’re talking about. In a condominium association or HOA, the property owner is the person who owns and occupies an individual unit. In a co-op, the property is technically owned by the co-op corporation and the “owners” (i.e., the shareholders in the corporation) occupy the units through lease agreements with the co-op corporation.