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Smoking Ban Should Cover Apartments

It always seems government goofs up and doesn’t take the time to think through laws before they are passed. Just look at the ban on smoking cigarettes in restaurants and bars but not in residential apartment buildings.

In a bar you have mature adults who can make their own decisions. ... The choice to smoke cigarettes was taken away by a law passed in part to protect the health and safety of the employees who worked these bars.

Restaurants, which cater more to families with children, also faced the ban in part because children can’t choose where their parents bring them, and they are at risk of secondhand smoke.

That is what the government should be doing — protecting the weak, the old and the sick, and keeping us all safe from undo harm.

You would think then that this smoking cigarettes ban would apply to all residential apartments, where there are newborn babies, children, young adults, and adults who are nonsmokers and some with pets living all under one complex.

The health issues that affect the residents in these apartment complexes from secondhand smoke cigarettes create a higher cost to the medical system, and the long-term effects for treatment can be forever.

But the law that the government puts into effect does not protect this innocent group of people.

Government buildings — as far as I know — are all smoke-free, so you would think that any government-subsidized housing would be smoke-free, too. This is not the case in St. Cloud because I live in one of these apartments, Key Row in south St. Cloud, which is operated by Catholic Charities but whose tenants rely on government housing subsidies.

I have to breathe secondhand smoke. Some days I feel like I had just taking up smoking cigarettes, which is not the case. I can smell cheap cigarettes daily and the secondhand smoke cigarettes from the cigarettes lingers into my apartment.

I’m not the only one. Recently, there was a newborn in one of the apartments, and the mother was very concerned about the secondhand smoke cigarettes for her child.

The rules and regulations for Key Row community state that if something endangers your well-being to inform operators of the problem.

Under “Key Row Rules and Regulations” on Page 6 it reads, “Residents shall not maintain or permit a condition that unreasonably annoys, injures, or endangers the safety, health, or comfort of any other Key Row residents.” By these few lines, it could be taken that anyone smoking cigarettes in the Key Row complex would be breaking the rules.

I sent a letter in January pointing this out in their own rules and regulations, but I have heard no response. They don’t live in the apartment so they don’t have to breathe and smell the secondhand smoke.

I also note that Catholic Charities’ Housing Service office is smoke-free. So what would happen if a group of smokers started to smoke cigarettes in their office? You know what would happen? Most likely they would be kicked out or be arrested if they didn’t leave.

When will the government make this goof-up right for the innocent people who live in apartment complexes?

My fight to make all apartments smoke-free has been met with silence. I’m not the only one who would like to see Key Row community go smoke-free. Most of the residents I’ve talked to would like to see this happen. The only ones who disagree are the ones who smoke cigarettes up the building.

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