Clickbait, because the law only applies "inside apartments, condos and other shared buildings where multiple families live."<p>This law already exists in many cities and should exist everywhere. It's one thing to smoke in your own detached house, but when you share walls with others, smoking becomes harmful to others' health, too, not just your own.<p>My downstairs neighbor smokes heavily and burns incense all day and night, and it's bad enough that I'm seriously considering moving. Sometimes I can see smoke visibly rising from the floor. This would not be a problem if the city I lived in had common-sense laws against smoking inside multi-unit buildings.
OT, but I was at a playground with the kids over the weekend and they were playing in a section that was all sand. While we were playing it struck me that there were no cigarette butts anywhere in sight. As a kid there were cigarette butts everywhere--you'd always have to scoop around them when you were playing in the sand and they'd be littered around the edges of the grass, walkways, etc.<p>Really made me think of how different it is today and how out of place smoking around children is.
Note that this is for apartments - smoking inside an apartment can easily spread to other units. I live next to a neighbor who smokes, and as a former smoker I don't feel I can complain that much, but there is often a persistent smell of smoke in my home.
Wouldn't the obvious solution be to make the apartments airtight, so as to avoid everything from smoke to cooking smells to whatever bothering your neighbors?<p>Isn't second-hand (passive smoking) shown to not increase cancer[0]?
Really trying to understand this "we don't like something so we will ban it for everyone!" thing.<p>Isn't your home supposed to be sacred? Sovereign?
Aren't the YIMBY people always telling me that apartments are just as good as Single Family Homes and only people who hate the planet want to live in SFH?<p>[0]: No Clear Link Between Passive Smoking and Lung Cancer <a href="https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/105/24/1844/2517805" rel="nofollow">https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/105/24/1844/2517805</a>
I hope we soon start judging other drugs like ethanol in same way. Banning use inside homes and near buildings were people live would help lot with noise pollution.