Those Joyful Days of Smoking in Your Own Apartment Are Numbered

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Since smoking has been banned in public areas and pretty much everywhere else, residential buildings remain one of the few remaining places where people can actually smoke -- not least because it can be hard to track down the culprit, and unless someone complains, why would you bother?

But people are complaining. And in 2006 a judge ruled "that a shareholder in a co-op has the right to live free of smoke, and the board is responsible to enforce the rights of victims (in these cases, second-hand smoke complainants)."

This means that it's up to the board to decide.

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