I live in a council flat attempting to raise DS1 and DS2 as healthily as possible.
We like to have the little windows slightly ajar all year round so we can get some fresh air flowing. The couple upstairs, who are fortunate enough to have bought their flat, have two very young children, so the dad sits in the stairwell puffing away. (Thoughtful, at least he cares about his own).
There are signs up saying no smoking in the communal stairway which he ignores. His second hand smoke somehow gets in through our front door.
The younger couple downstairs who are private renters also have a young toddler.
Daddy is not allowed to smoke at all, but does so at work and when his partner is out. (I used to work at the same place as him,always saw him taking fag breaks)
When smoking indoors he does it standing on a chair out of a small window so so he can spot his partner coming home. Personally i don't buy this as an effective way of not being caught. She must smell it?! Anyway, his smoke drifts right up and is funnelled in by our windows.
I hate it.
I don't mind people's rights to do this and that, but at least think of those it innocently affects!
Cigarette smokers are a bit thick in this day and age, including members of my extended family, to still be spunking their money and health away on something that 'feels nice'...
Sorry, had to get this off my chest!
AIBU?
to not want to wake up smelling other tennants smoke?
Grumpyrealist77 · 14/05/2014 05:58
Going around telling people they're "thick" because they have an addiction is a bit shitty, OP. People smoke because they're addicted and it's really not that easy to give up. As you're not "thick", you should know that, right?
The man opposite me smokes In his home despite the whole block being non smoking!! He's had cleaners quit because it smelt so bad (he doesn't open windows and chain smokes) when he opens his door the stale smoke lingers in the communal hallway for hours and makes you wretch I've just phoned out HA about him who have said they'll remind him to smoke outside.
It's disgusting
Id love to move, I've tried.
So sorry for not proof reading my predictive text, your a little unreasonable you'reself... 
Mutual colleagues at my old place of work told me about the chair. He's tell anyone who's listen how brill he was at keeping it a secret from his then pregnant girlfriend which i think is harsh on her!
He's terribly short and said tiny window is 6 foot off the floor so i have no reason to disbelieve his version of events.
I've been VERY tempted to innocently mention it to his girlfriend, but i don't want to be the instigator of an argument between them.
Addictions, I've had them, once I'd beaten them I've looked back and thought "How silly of me!"
Its a vast expense over a lifetime and put health at risk.
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