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My neighbors are avid smokers?

I'm am going crazy! My neighbors are smokers. It seems as if they smoke all the time!! I am not a smoker and i have never smoked in my life. Anyway, they just moved into the apartment less than 2 months ago and the place is crawling with cigarette smoke!! I love having my window open so fresh air comes in and i feel like I'm always having to shut it because they're outside smoking or they have a window or door cracked. The worst part is that I have an 8 month old that's breathing this second hand smoke. I just don't know what to do in this situation. I know I'm coughing up a storm from the smoke, my baby isn't, but I'm worried for her health. Help? Thanks!

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  • 9 years ago

    Since you know that every ailment known to mankind is caused only by cigarette smoking including 2nd hand smoke causing tooth decay and dry skin, then you should demand your new neighbors move immediately or you will have them arrested for child abuse and polution of the ozone layer.

    suck it up babe and find an apartment complex that does not allow smoking within 2 blocks of it.

    there are more of that kind than the kind that allow smoking, children, pets, etc.

  • MHF
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    If it wasn't their smoking, it would be their fireplace. If it wasn't their fireplace, it'd be their BBQ. If it wasn't their BBQ, it'd be their car. Get over it. Live goes on and no one is guaranteed a birth right to complete and utter satisfaction.

    ------------- The Largest study on Second Hand Smoke ever done by Enstrom

    http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7398/1057

    “No significant associations were found for current or former exposure to environmental tobacco smoke before or after adjusting for seven confounders and before or after excluding participants with pre-existing disease. No significant associations were found during the shorter follow up periods of 1960-5, 1966-72, 1973-85, and 1973-98.”

    “Enstrom has defended the accuracy of his study against what he terms ‘illegitimate criticism by those who have attempted to suppress and discredit it.’". (Wikipedia)

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC216493...

    ------ Court rules that environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is NOT a Class A carcinogen

    http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/980717osteen.html

    “There is evidence in the record supporting the accusation that EPA ‘cherry picked’ its data” … “EPA's excluding nearly half of the available studies directly conflicts with EPA's purported purpose for analyzing the epidemiological studies and conflicts with EPA's Risk Assessment Guidelines” (p. 72)

    -------- OSHA will NOT regulate something that’s NOT hazardous

    http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_docum...

    “Air contaminants, limits employee exposure to several of the main chemical components found in tobacco smoke. In normal situations, exposures would not exceed these permissible exposure limits (PELs), and, as a matter of prosecutorial discretion, OSHA will not apply the General Duty Clause to ETS.”

    Study about health & Smoking Bans – The National Bureau of Economic Research

    http://www.nber.org/papers/w14790

    “Workplace bans are not associated with statistically significant short-term declines in mortality or hospital admissions for myocardial infarction or other diseases.”

    http://www.cigarmony.com/downloads/smoking%201440....

    “Conclusions: Our results indicate no association between childhood exposure to ETS(environmental tobacco smoke) and lung cancer risk.”

    Showtime television, "How the EPA, CDC, Lung Association, and etc." support their claims.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGApkbcaZK4

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