@Dragandeewhy said:
We obviously do not understand each other. You come from one side of ideological thinking I come from the side of “live and let live”.
I think I understand you perfectly – your attitude isn’t live and let live, though, it’s let me live the way I want and let others die if that happens to be their luck.
To get back to how this affects apartment living, if people aren’t prepared to tolerate the presence of other people in close proximity, and put up with some of their idiosyncracies, then they shouldn’t be living in apartments.
But there have to be limits and they include respecting other people’s property, their privacy and not causing a nuisance. If your libertarian sense of freedom is offended by the minor and perfectly reasonable restrictions that inevitably places on your behaviour, go and live in a house where you won’t bother anyone and they won’t bother you.
To paraphrase the judge who banned a couple from smoking INSIDE their unit in Sydney, because the smoke was affecting neighbouring apartments, the issue only arose because the couple smoked; in other words, “no smoke, no problem”.
Smoking is a foul and filthy habit and passive smoking kills. Trying to justify inflicting one person’s smoke on another with fatuous arguments about the level of pollution already in our lives is missing the point, I suspect deliberately.