Are you renting? Smoking might be banned...in your own home

Interesting! I can see the pros and cons of this one...

Anti-tobacco groups across the county are lobbying elected officials and apartment owners and managers to ban smoking in multiunit residences for the sake of those who share walls, ceilings and floors with smokers.

The odor can permeate adjoining units, they say, posing a danger to neighbors and further sickening those with asthma and other respiratory illnesses.

“Sometimes at night, I have to put a machine on my son to help him breathe,” said Gabriela Magana, who taped over the vents in her National City apartment to keep out smoke after 7-year-old Ramon was diagnosed with asthma in May.

“He was never a sick child. He used to play football, but he had to leave all that.”
Health advocates point out that less than 14 percent of Californians smoke cigarettes, so it makes sense to adopt policies that shield the majority of people from unhealthy air.

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Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune