Santa Monica Proposes to Ban Smoking in Apartment Rentals: Do You Agree With the City's Proposal?
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2012/07/25 22:00:00
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The city of Santa Monica recently proposed to ban smoking for new apartment and condo renters. Under the proposed ordinance, both new and existing multi-unit buildings would be subject to the ban.
Smokers already renting could continue to light up in their apartments, but the units would be covered by the ban as soon as they became vacant. According to the Los Angeles Times article, "Tenants who break the rules could be fined up to $500 if a landlord or a neighbor takes them to small claims court."
LATIMES.COM reports:
Smokers already renting could continue to light up in their apartments, but the units would be covered by the ban as soon as they became vacant. According to the Los Angeles Times article, "Tenants who break the rules could be fined up to $500 if a landlord or a neighbor takes them to small claims court."
LATIMES.COM reports:
The Santa Monica City Council is scheduled to vote on a plan to bar new renters from smoking inside their apartments and condos. The council should demonstrate restraint and vote no.
Read More: http://www.latimes.com/health/la-ed-smoking-renter...
Top Opinion
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dalevic 2012/07/27 14:53:04No
+8I am a non smoker and even I am sick of the government sticking their noses where they don't belong. They had no right banning smoking in private businesses and they have no right banning smoking in private property. If We the people do not stand up to these politicians at some point, and that would be NOW they will just keep STOMPING all over our rights. Today it may be smokers tomorrow it will be you "yes people"!!!
Smokers need to learn respect for non-smokers and let others live heathly live.
How does tobacco smoke get into the home?
People living in flats or terraced houses are more likely to experience smoke drift than those
in detached or semi-detached homes due to the way air is circulated within and between the
buildings. Smoke may enter the home from a number of sources such as:
• open windows or doors
• through electrical ducting
• via cracks and gaps around window frames, floorboards, skirting boards, ceilings
• through shared ventilation systems
http://ash.org.uk/files/docum...
Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) in multi-unit housing (apartments, condominiums, etc.) is a growing concern. The California public is now protected from exposure to ETS in all indoor public workplaces (with a few exceptions), therefore being exposed in your own home has become a greater nuisance for the non-smoking public (85% of Californians). While the indoor common areas of multi-family housing complexes (including hallways, stairwells, laundry and recreation rooms) are considered workplaces under the State's workplace smoking ban, secondh...
Smokers need to learn respect for non-smokers and let others live heathly live.
How does tobacco smoke get into the home?
People living in flats or terraced houses are more likely to experience smoke drift than those
in detached or semi-detached homes due to the way air is circulated within and between the
buildings. Smoke may enter the home from a number of sources such as:
• open windows or doors
• through electrical ducting
• via cracks and gaps around window frames, floorboards, skirting boards, ceilings
• through shared ventilation systems
http://ash.org.uk/files/docum...
Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) in multi-unit housing (apartments, condominiums, etc.) is a growing concern. The California public is now protected from exposure to ETS in all indoor public workplaces (with a few exceptions), therefore being exposed in your own home has become a greater nuisance for the non-smoking public (85% of Californians). While the indoor common areas of multi-family housing complexes (including hallways, stairwells, laundry and recreation rooms) are considered workplaces under the State's workplace smoking ban, secondhand smoke(SHS) in adjoining units of an apartment complex or condominium can seep in and expose non-smokers who may then suffer adverse health effects. The California Department of Health Services says that even if apartment residents do not smoke in their home they are still at risk from SHS seepage through shared walls, ventilation systems, doors and windows. According to John Howard MD, Chief of the California Dvision of Occupational Safety and Health (CAL OSHA), SHS can "move through light fixtures, ceiling crawl spaces, and into and out of doorways." This puts tenants at risk for "irritant, allergic, acute and chronic cardiopulmonary and carcinogenic adverse health effects." To learn more about the risks of drifting SHS in multi-unit housing and what you can do to avoid it, follow this link.
http://www.arb.ca.gov/toxics/...
Only the owners of the apartments can make such rules.
There is nothing imaginary about it. We have the exact same problem in our condo complex and over 56 if the 100 units have made complaints of drifting smoke. We also do not have hallways either. We all have outside entrances.
got their way about getting smoking out of restraunts, which is OK by me, because I do not smoke but to got to peoples apartments is more government intursion!
Smoke drifts and does not stay in one place it moves with the air in apartment building and invades the space of others.
Every one has the right of clean air in their own home.
Smokers need to learn respect for non-smokers and let others live heathly live.
How does tobacco smoke get into the home?
People living in flats or terraced houses are more likely to experience smoke drift than those
in detached or semi-detached homes due to the way air is circulated within and between the
buildings. Smoke may enter the home from a number of sources such as:
• open windows or doors
• through electrical ducting
• via cracks and gaps around window frames, floorboards, skirting boards, ceilings
• through shared ventilation systems
http://ash.org.uk/files/docum...
Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) in multi-unit housing (apartments, condominiums, etc.) is a growing concern. The California public is now protected from exposure to ETS in all indoor public workplaces (with a few exceptions), therefore being exposed in your own home has become a greater nuisance for the non-smoking public (85% of Californians). While the indoor common areas of multi-family housing complexes (including hallways, stairwells, laundry and recreation rooms) are considered workplaces under the State's workplace smoking ban, secondhand smoke(SHS) in adjoining units of an apartment complex or condominium can seep in and expose non-smokers who may then suffer advers...
Smokers need to learn respect for non-smokers and let others live heathly live.
How does tobacco smoke get into the home?
People living in flats or terraced houses are more likely to experience smoke drift than those
in detached or semi-detached homes due to the way air is circulated within and between the
buildings. Smoke may enter the home from a number of sources such as:
• open windows or doors
• through electrical ducting
• via cracks and gaps around window frames, floorboards, skirting boards, ceilings
• through shared ventilation systems
http://ash.org.uk/files/docum...
Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) in multi-unit housing (apartments, condominiums, etc.) is a growing concern. The California public is now protected from exposure to ETS in all indoor public workplaces (with a few exceptions), therefore being exposed in your own home has become a greater nuisance for the non-smoking public (85% of Californians). While the indoor common areas of multi-family housing complexes (including hallways, stairwells, laundry and recreation rooms) are considered workplaces under the State's workplace smoking ban, secondhand smoke(SHS) in adjoining units of an apartment complex or condominium can seep in and expose non-smokers who may then suffer adverse health effects. The California Department of Health Services says that even if apartment residents do not smoke in their home they are still at risk from SHS seepage through shared walls, ventilation systems, doors and windows. According to John Howard MD, Chief of the California Dvision of Occupational Safety and Health (CAL OSHA), SHS can "move through light fixtures, ceiling crawl spaces, and into and out of doorways." This puts tenants at risk for "irritant, allergic, acute and chronic cardiopulmonary and carcinogenic adverse health effects." To learn more about the risks of drifting SHS in multi-unit housing and what you can do to avoid it, follow this link.
http://www.arb.ca.gov/toxics/...
If I can't kill the badguy - - I don't want him killing himself and those around him.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects...
Oh, but that doesn't pertain to you Canadians.