Next door neighbor smoking and is stinking the bedroom out - is there anything I can say to her?

[Rhythm Thief]

I can understand - I used to stay regularly in a hotel where the tall narrow window frames went from the ground right to the roof. The floors didn't meet the frames so you could hear and smell the occupants of the rooms above and below. Horrible when someone smoked.

That's ridiculous. Who designs these things?

 

[Dayvo]

That's ridiculous. Who designs these things?

Smokers?

 

[Archie_tect]

I can understand - I used to stay regularly in a hotel where the tall narrow window frames went from the ground right to the roof. The floors didn't meet the frames so you could hear and smell the occupants of the rooms above and below. Horrible when someone smoked.

Not only horrible, but illegal and criminally negligent on several levels.

 

[Archie_tect]

That's ridiculous. Who designs these things?

I think you need to ask, "Who built it?"... No-one would design a hotel that way, unless they were mentally deficient!

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Not only horrible, but illegal and criminally negligent on several levels.

It might not have been illegal, that depends on when this happened. And as for your terrible pun ...

 

[tyred]

I've nothing agianst smoking but am totally anti passive smoking. People should buy their own fags and stop trying to inhale other peoples

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I've nothing agianst smoking but am totally anti passive smoking. People should buy their own fags and stop trying to inhale other peoples

Reminds me of that bit in "Black Books":

"Do you realise I'm inhaling your cigarette smoke?"
"Ah, that's OK. Just buy me a pint sometime, or something."

 

[Percy]

Just wondering what the outcome of this was, i'm having a similar problem. Did you confront your neighbours? Or just move!!

 

[vernon]

Just wondering what the outcome of this was, i'm having a similar problem. Did you confront your neighbours? Or just move!!

Why don't you contact the original poster, Rabbitfood, and ask him/her directly?

 

[DiddlyDodds]

I am staggered you are on here asking if she is "Breaking the Law" for smoking in her own house.
What ever happened to nipping round next door and telling here about the smell and can she open a window.

You say you dont get on with many of the neighbors !!


Try that strange old fasioned comunication system , Talking


I smoked for years and stopped 6 years ago now so you would think i would be all for banning smoking, but i am not as ,all the protest groups , all the do gooders , all the health groups have nothing to do now and just you watch what pleasure will be in there sights next!

Pubs will all be gone in 20 years , no drinking in public , all confined to your own house with the stigma accociated with smoking now.

These days if you smoke , drink , drive (and 99% on here will drive) or fly abroad for a holiday you are made to feel an outcast so were will it all stop ,, sadly it will not as the ball is now rolling towards eutopia where life is so boring an early exit is the prefered option.

 

[PBancroft]

I'm a non-smoker, and so is my wife. My wife used to smoke socially, but gave up ten years ago. Now part of her job is advising people on how to give up. Neither of us like the smell of smoke, but when it was legal in pubs we used to put up with it (because, hey, we knew what it was going to be like when we went in).

Most smokers, in my experience, don't want to affect other people. Occasionally they just might not think (I remember being in a restaurant where a lady was diligently keeping her cigarette away from her friends by holding it behind her... in other words next to me), but most of the time they know it annoys others, and try not to be antagonistic. You always get the odd pr1ck though.

The neighbour probably has no idea, and may even be smoking inside so that the smoke doesn't waft into your windows or bother you outside. I'd be inclined to approach her gently, and ask if there is any you can do together to resolve it.

 

[661-Pete]

Try that strange old fasioned comunication system , Talking

Try that strange old-fashioned communication system, spelling and punctuation.

 

[zacklaws]

well like I said the only brick walls are on the sides of the house, the rest is plaster board and windows that make up the front and back.

Good Lord, if its only plaster board seperating too households, then something seems a bit iffy, is it a council house that has been converted from one house into two houses by building a stud partition.

I live in an ex council house and if I had such a set up. I think there would be many a morning I wake up with my body in my side of the house and my head in the neighbours side as I often fall over and crack my head on the wall when I fall over drunk.

 

[vernon]

I'm surprised at how much blame and responsibility is apportioned to the smoker. The problem does not lie with the smokers' actions but with the construction of the houses.

The 'victims' first need to identify how the smoke is making its way into their homes and then take measures to prevent the ingress.

Personally in such circumstances I would no more consider asking my neighbour to solve the problem than I would expect them to ask me should the roles be reversed.

What's happened to taking personal responsibility for solving one's own problems?

 

[vernon]

Good Lord, if its only plaster board seperating too households, then something seems a bit iffy, is it a council house that has been converted from one house into two houses by building a stud partition.

I'd be very surprised if the dividing wall is plasterboard.