I'm starting to wish smoking would be banned BC wide in apartments/condos.
Individual buildings could ban it,
Not just newly built buildings, but existing buildings could have a 'no further smokers (renters, owners, guests/visitors of renters, owners) allowed'; and the huge source of objection, existing smokers, 'grandfathered' in to be allowed to stay. The typical 5% annual turnover of residents leads to pretty much no smoking at all in every building in twenty years.
jbw
editted to add: The latest View Towers highrise fire was yet again started by a cigarette. Think of how much safer highrises would be with fewer and eventually no smokers residing in them!
However, we do need to provide a place for smokers to indulge (and, within the city limits -- not quite fair to tell them to go smoke out by the Hartland Dump). So, I suggest coin operated kiosks (negative air pressure and full HazMat grade scrubbing of the toxic emissions involved before being released to the environment). Perhaps one on every downtown street corner? Just like there used to be payphone booths.
Edited by James Bay walker, 02 June 2014 - 09:47 AM.