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The recent win by NSW apartment dwellers over their balcony smoking neighbours sent a puff of panic through strata smokers and their barbecuing brethr
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My apartment does not have any windows. I rely on refreshing air throughout my apartment. esp to reach main bedroom down a long hallway, through wide open balcony doors all day. My neighbour is a chain smoker, every 20 minutes her cig stink comes in, and I leap up to close the doors. Even with doors closed, the smoke odour comes in through the very small opening of the individual door partition edges.
I asked BC to tell her to smoke away from the wall that separates our apts. They passed it on to the Real Estate Manager. It lasted a few days. So I am fighting back with tit for tat, stink for stink, her cig stink and my Mortein fly spray in her direction.
So, how does my lack of windows support my right to fresh air by banning smokers near me. By the way, no apartment/housing should lack windows. esp in bedrooms.
I have changed tack. I now hang a QB sheet on my portable clothes line across my doors in an effort to stop smoke, and cancer causing CHEMICALS from entering my apartment from the stinker next door. Has reduced some, but still a nuisance.