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Discussion Started: 11-17-2006, 9:03 AM

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A judge has upheld a Colorado homeowners association's order that bars a couple from smoking in the town house they own. What are your thoughts?

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rjones1!

06-19-2008, 2:45 PM

I live in a condo in Denver and have the same problem. this person is home all day smoking and when I get home it smells like someone has been in my house smoking, especially, the bathroom area. Have conplained to our Association and ask them to talk with the owner, (he rents)I'm an owners. What are our rights. Plus, he throws butts on the lawn. I have cleaned them up more than I should and took them to our meetings. How rude of him.

napper24

05-02-2007, 6:59 PM

The judge seems to have forgotten about property rights...( I would be willing to bet that the sales contract doesn't say that you can't smoke in your own home). The homeowner's association is probably in breach of contract. If you don't want to smell the smoke then don't come to my home. If I'm in a public or common area that is used by other home owners then I should not be allowed to smoke there. I should have said in the beginning...I don't smoke!!

lgillespie

04-16-2007, 6:38 PM

You hear and read that second hand smoke will hurt you, but the surgen general says that there is no proof that second hand smoke harms people. It did kill a mouse that lived in a 4"x4" box for 2 years. These suits are brought on by bored and boring people who want everyone to be as bored and boring as they are. Someday someone is going to take away one of their rights then what. Get a life

Yours Truly Larry G

Miz B

03-12-2007, 6:53 AM

Let's see I can get fired for being gay, I can have idjuts telling me what to do in my home which nobody's business. But it's ok for the drunks to get sh*tfaced & no restrictions on them which cause more deaths than cigarettes do. Who turned Colorado into California? My home my choice, unless your going to make my house payments. What rights do I have? Answer- fewer every week according to these folks. My body my choice.

Miz B- who's tired of everyone's communist mentality

neal5

03-07-2007, 11:52 AM

We should all be told before we have this discussion whether or not the home owners in question ever agreed not to smoke befor moving in.

Assuming that they did not, here goes:

We are all supposed to have an extensive package of basic rights protected by Federal state and local governments.

We often forget that these rights do not include protection against ever being offended or smelling something bad.

We are undergoing an alarming shift in our basic societal values. We are moving away from an ideal where societal and legal space is made for individuals to stand out in ways good or bad, so long as the burden of outstanding behaviour does not counterbalance the rights of others.

We are moving toward a herd mentality in law and in our daily lives in which any offense to the sensibilities of the herd is punishable.

Perhaps the occasional bad smell is not too great a price for freedom. Others paid much more to establish our right of going against the herd.

Mad Scientist Living in Your Midst

wu10304

02-24-2007, 2:55 PM

This is horrible. What right do you have to tell people what they can do in their own house? I can't stand the smell of curry but I can't make my neighbor stop cooking it. What happened to our rights?

Triskelion

02-23-2007, 12:07 PM

erikhurst-

Insurance rates are not increased by smoking-related illnesses in this country. It has been a constant and steady factor within the medical hospitalization field for decades. Actually, the number of smokers is declining, and with that the number of related hospitalizations. In fact, smokers pay for a large majority of medical costs nationally, most unrelated to smoking illnesses. I believe Colorado just reported $115 million in money for 2006 coming from R.J. Reynolds, a leading tobacco manufacturer providing funding for several medical entities including AIDS. A pack of cigarettes is averaging $4.00 per pack, with an estimated $1 increase by the end of the year. These added taxes are directly attributed to medical funding. So, without smokers, the overall costs of insurance would be far greater. Just something you may want to think about when you and your elitists fall off your high horse and call US for help. Cheers.

Know not

02-23-2007, 12:10 AM

I like my neighbor but I don't appreciate the smell of smoke coming in through my wall permeating into my clothes. Why do I have to go around smelling like a smoker. That is imposing on me. i.e. Why can't you play the music in your condo or apartment as loud as you want?!?!? It's in your own home right?

It is imposing on your neighbors.

Just another opinion

erikhurst

02-15-2007, 7:19 PM

After reading some of the response of smokers I know they must feel that the gov. is now the S.S. But the fact of the matter when you pour toxic waste in your body it only involves you. But when you grab another carton of cigs and fall off your chair and awake at a hospital and our hospitals try to reverse your body waste, meanwhile insurance rates go up costing billions of dollars. So as you smoke outside and you feel alittle pain coming take a carton empty it out and try using it as an oxygen mask if that dosent work reflect back at some of those great moments you had smoking but dont call us to help cheers

ehurst

scwhfamily

02-14-2007, 10:37 AM

I am a smoker and I have two children, but I do not smoke in my house nor do I smoke in my car. When I smoke I go outside, so my children aren't around me while I smoke. I do agree to the fact you should not smoke around your children because second hand smoke has been proven to cause alot of illnesses such as Cancer # 1, Asthma and others. It is not fair to the children to have to breathe it in. It is not the childrens fault that the parents smoke, why should they have to breathe it in, they have a say to they just cant express it yet. People have to care more about their children to not smoke around them. If you want to smoke go outside, what is so difficult about that! Also though everyone has their own privacy in their home is just that!! It is not anyone else's buisness what you do in your home but who resides there. For all these non smokers out there if your not being harmed by others than what is the problem. I show people curtisy by not smoking around others.

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