Pasadena Weekly
Author: Jake Armstrong

Summary:

Kathy Braidhill teaches Pilates and rides a bike, so the smoker's cough she developed over the past year was a real surprise -- especially since she doesn't smoke cigarettes.

But the neighbors who a year ago moved into the unit below her Pasadena condo do light up, and through her open windows wafts secondhand smoke that she says tarnishes furniture, stains curtains and harms her health.

"It's like waking up in the middle of a bar at closing time. It is the most horrendous, distressing thing I can imagine," said the author and former Pasadena Star-News reporter.

Braidhill said she even pressed the board of her homeowners' association to act on the issue, but its members had no idea how to handle problems beyond loud stereos or barking dogs.

But Pasadena's policy-makers are expected to begin discussions on an ordinance limiting smoking in condos, apartments and other multi-family complexes, potentially joining a growing group of California cities reaching into living rooms to impose restrictions on smoking.

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Maybe there should be non-smoking apartment buildings for those who don't want to be around smoking?