Smoker...
The guy in the condo across from me is a heavy smoker. He often sits in his screened porch that faces the courtyard puffing away and doing business. Semi-retired, he does handyman projects from time-to-time. In the past few days (probably due to the rain) he paces the covered walkway... smoking.The guy below him, also retired, listens to music on his porch... also puffing away.
Anywhere from 6am until midnight, there's a really good chance the courtyard and balcony will have the smell of cigarette smoke.
Usually, I walk along the main road in the evening... after 11pm and sometimes I smell fresh cigarette smoke. A few of the residents smoke cigars. Most of these smokers are over the age of 60... at that age they have no intentions of quitting.
This morning, I got up earlier than usual and decided to do a brisk walk... along more than 200 condos facing the roadway and found it surprising as the smell of 'morning cigarettes' was every few hundred feet.
I lost a friend earlier this year. A drummer who started playing in the 60's. I remember in high school one summer my parents let my band to use the house for practice. He was allowed to stay at my house for a few weeks and smoked a cigarette seconds before going to sleep and seconds after waking up. Cause of death: lung cancer.
Condo living is not for me and I've been shopping for another place to live. Preference would be a small house, cottage or townhouse... somewhere away from smokers.
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I don't get it.
Best of luck looking for a new place. Must be a pain to move again.
I do not like to be around smokers.
Even when they are not smoking, the stench is on their clothes and hair.
I also live in a building and both people living below me and those living above me are heavy smokers. I can't leave my windows and terrace open when and as long as I would like to. I always have to take care, because they often smoke on the balcony, so the smell comes into my flat.
It's amazing that these people are still alive! I'm sure that each one of them smokes at least 50 cigarettes a day!
I have problems with allergies and this doesn't help at all.
He has an unusual sense of humor.
Back when we were in high school I witnessed a funny thing involving him.
We were talking with someone else in person and that person lit up a cigarette.
That person asked my friend if he wanted one (a cigarette).
My friend said "sure, if you don't mind".
When he was handed the cigarette, my friend immediately threw it on the ground and stomped on it.
There will always be issues if you live with lots of people around. Hope they'll put down some rules for the place.
Your blog made me realise how nice it is not having cigarette smoke infiltrating my kitchen through pipe holes. Goodness knows what she was smoking, but it wasn't your average tobacco, nor was it pleasantly green.
I'm hoping whoever moves in when it's ready is a dope fiend. At least my kitchen will smell herbaceous and chores will become a mellow experience.
Not sure what aura photographs of cigarette smokers look like, some smoke both.
"BTW, I want to thank you while I still can for taking me out in the hallway and making me smoke a cigarette when I was 10 years old . I know you did it to get a laugh out of my coughing and gagging from the smoke but it was such a horrible experience that it turned me off of smoking for the rest of my life. Thanks to you I never became a smoker and that probably had the effect of making me healthier and adding years to my life.
Tommy"
(RIP Bob).
Never would I suggest, however, that any smoker has the right to impinge upon the clean air being enjoyed by another.