Good question. If he was inside his own house, I doubt the smoke would travel as much as if he's standing in the lawn alongside of my house.
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Smoker's Rights vs. Everyone Else's Rights
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Good question. If he was inside his own house, I doubt the smoke would travel as much as if he's standing in the lawn alongside of my house.
Me Myself
Back to my username
Personally I think this shouldn´t be the case.
So what if it is his house? I can make a doomsday machine in my own house but when it killz you where you stand without having the physical machine leaving my house I still violated your rights! MWAHAHAHAHA! Okay that was a little over do
but the point is the smoke left his house.
Storm
ThrUU the Looking Glass
Why should he have to? You have a choice, here.Why should I have to? It's my right to open my windows and have fresh air.
He could put out his cigarette.
So does he.
McBell
mantra-chanting henotheistic snake handler
I agree it is a good question.Good question. If he was inside his own house, I doubt the smoke would travel as much as if he's standing in the lawn alongside of my house.
I disagree that you answered it.
Storm
ThrUU the Looking Glass
Oh, I missed the part where you said he was on your lawn. You have every right to ask him to leave. You have no right to tell him to stop smoking.
McBell
mantra-chanting henotheistic snake handler
He can go to the front of his house where it won't come directly into my windows.
Anyway, his wife asks him to go outside to smoke because she doesn't want that smell in her house. Why should I have it in mine?
Your right to swing your arms ends at the tip of my nose. Your right to smoke ends when your smoke hits my nostrils.
What you do entirely on your own property is your own business, but if your smoke is wafting into someone else's house, then what you're doing isn't entirely on your own property.
Storm
ThrUU the Looking Glass
Remeber the scantily clad daughters thread? Seems to me that when it's something YOU disapprove of, you side with the neighbor....
I'm a pipe smoker and whenever I'm anywhere near other people I go out of my way to make sure the wind is blowing away from them (or doorways or windows).
I do this partly out of consideration, and partly because that way when someone walks up to me and tells me my smoke is bothering them, I can point to the fact that my smoke isn't getting anywhere near them, that it is in fact drifting off in the other direction away from them, and that my smoke isn't bothering them so much as my smoking is.
At that point I might make some nasty comment about their perfume or cologne.
I do this partly out of consideration, and partly because that way when someone walks up to me and tells me my smoke is bothering them, I can point to the fact that my smoke isn't getting anywhere near them, that it is in fact drifting off in the other direction away from them, and that my smoke isn't bothering them so much as my smoking is.
At that point I might make some nasty comment about their perfume or cologne.
sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
Close your window or move. Also never fart in public where it can effect others.
While I can see the benefits in banning smoking in public places some activities done in private need to be left alone even if offensive to others.
Even as a smoker I can empathize with this, Ssainhu. They should have special housing complexes for cigar smokers, like right next to the city dump.
Magic Man
Reaper of Conversation
Can you point me to that thread? It sounds interesting (honestly, not just because of the "scantily-clad" part).
As far as smoke goes, it's tough. Ideally, your neighbor shouldn't be able to do anything that affects you on your own property. Hence the reason you can complain about the volume of noise coming from a neighbor, and the police will do something about it.
However, it is kind of tricky when you're talking about smoking on your own property. I can see both sides equally. The part that makes it even trickier to me is other things like grilling.
