Dear Neighbors;
Smoke inside your own damn apartment. Do you think it’s fair that I have to close my living room windows on a hot summer evening so you can enjoy your smoke on the front steps and avoid stinking up your own apartment? No, it won’t kill me. But it’s fucking gross. How about if I set up my campstove right under your window and boil up a batch of sauerkraut? Would you like that? At the very least, have the courtesy to move away from other people’s windows. Fuck.
—Stuffy
This article appears in Jul 2-8, 2009.
Hark – in the distance – a chorus of glass doors are slamming shut – no, wait, it’s the Harbour Stench causing all that ruckus – muuuucccchhhhh better.
I kind of agree, that shit travels fast and far. Maybe you should mention it nicely.
that’s unfortunate for you.
Hey, mention it to your landlord, who, in turn, will tell you that they aren’t allowed to smoke within the apartment. Fuck, people are so stupid sometimes.
i think its perfectly fair and you should shut the fuck up
We need a smoking bitch tag!
how about No
we pay money to rent or own places to do what we wish if we want to smoke outside then so be it!
Fever, I know there are some apartment buildings that prohibit smoking, but in general they prohibit smoking anywhere on the premises, not just inside the apartments. And non-smoking buildings, while they are a growing trend, are still far from the norm. Also, how likely is it that a smoker would choose to live in such a building?
Jane, by your logic, people should also be able to blast their music as loud as they like at 7 o’clock on a Sunday morning, for example. After all, they paid good money for the right to do what they want. The standard apartment lease has a clause about tenants not being allowed to engage in behavior that interferes with other tenants’ “quiet enjoyment” of their own premises. I seems to me that smoking outside someone’s window is interfering with that person’s “quiet enjoyment”.
This person is smoking outside and you are bitching. Hole-e-Fuck !!
Well, there is some 3meter rule somewhere I am sure.
Actually, here is a little snippet from HRM BY-LAW NUMBER S-200 RESPECTING SMOKING under General Prohibition ”No person shall smoke in any of the following places: …within a radius of 5 meters (16 feet) of all public entrances and air intake to buildings…”
Perhaps you should bring it up with the LandLord? Try to get the property deemed as ”Smoke-Free”. And if that does not happen you could always Shut the Fuck Up !!
For 3.5 years I had this LCD smoke his weed on his stoop and it would come into my house via my son’s room window…the first time it happend I walked into my house smelld weed and my son and I got into it..I was shockd my son had the nerve to smoke weed in ‘my’ house….my bad….so every time the weed was in my house I called landlord who would not do anything because of the race issue..I told him if I want to get high I will buy my own dope….
I called police being it was a chronic weed issue…did nothing because of the race issue… the smoke was coming into my home and causing me breathing issues…. never mind made my house stink……
This LCD would also have his cRAP blasting which I also was offensive… so would report that…nada so I then I started blasting my bag pipe music……..yeah just what I thought….landlord and LCD called police on me…….
3.5 years of war ensued…
The smoke issues gets worse as the humidity gets worse……
Actually SA, in my recent hunt for a new place I found that most buildings (respectable buildings mind you) have a no smoking policy within the units themselves. I’ve also found that the same goes for privately owned houses/flats and such. It’s more common than you think. I really think my issue with the bitch is this; if you’re renting, you really have no right to complain about something like that. The music example is something completely different as there are laws against that. There is no such law against smoking outside, or inside for that matter. Therefore, it’s really a separate issue.
Ah, the plight of the smoker! I generally try to leave my own biases out of these discussions and argue purely from a logical standpoint. But I have to confess that my sympathy is limited. I have an aquaintance who unwisely moved into one of these non-smoking buildings, only to discover that not only could he not smoke in his appartment, but he could not smoke on his balcony, in the common yard, or in the parking lot beside his car. Finally, his options were to move or quit.
Fever, I have to disagree with you that it is a separate issue. Legally, perhaps yes. But in terms of plain old civility, it is exactly the same. I don’t think it is unreasonable of Stuffy to hope that his neighbors would not smoke directly under or in front of his window. Of course, he could politely request that they not do so. But sadly, the response he would get would probably be in the same spirit as the response of the smokers on this forum.
I think the OP should buy a fan for that window. Problem solved. I can’t imagine be told what I can and cannot do in my own home or even directly on the other side of its outside wall.
mcgayle, breathing issues… you don’t fool us.
SA, that’s right, they can ask them to stop, and perhaps inform the landlord, but the other tenant doesn’t actually have to stop. In all actuality, if the person was made aware, I’m sure they’d move. It is indeed a simple request. However, as a renter, not an owner, they really can’t complain if they’ve done everything they can to resolve the issue. This is when it comes down to what I would call a “business” decision. The renter (in this case the OP) can go to their landlord and say: “this guy keeps smoking below my window and annoying the fuck out of me. Either do something about it or I move.” If the renter is a good tenant and has been there a number of years, well, 9 times out of 10 they’ll do something about it. If the landlord decides to do nothing about it, well, then you know where they stand, and then you either move (which would be the smart thing) or, suck it up Princess.
im gonna climb OP deck and smoke
Spray a half-can of febreeze in the general direction of the offending smoker but check the wind first.
Actually, I am so fucking sick of this smoker-non-smoker war that I wish they’d all go take a flea dip and roll buck-naked in jalapeno peppers.
What sucks is when the tenants smoke SOOOO much in their own apartment that they make you gag when you walk down the hallway towards yours. It was like that when I lived on the other side of my building. Now I just smell fish when I walk down the hall to my apt. Either someone next door needs to go see a doctor for a serious case of crotch rot, or they eat WAY too much fucking fish.
Hey, I’ll take cigarette smoke over boiled cabbage stink any day of the week. Man, this post makes me glad I own my digs, despite the inbred neighbours who do the maniacal hully gully dance in front of the corner store, every hour on the hour. Then they christen themselves with empty ice cream cones before hurling themselves in traffic.
Alot of apt have air filtration systems which is good for smokers 🙂