To ask my neighbour to take her smoking outside...

[nyldn]

We have a new neighbour in the flat below us and it's clear that she's smoking inside. We can smell it in ours. Our lease says no smoking, so I assume hers would as well. I generally wouldn't care too much other than disliking it, but I'm pregnant and it's a concern for me that the baby will be breathing it in constantly. WIBU to ask her to please take it outside? I don't want to go straight to the landlord and cause unnecessary tensions...

I wonder how enforceable that clause is

Thanks for the opinions. I do feel that people should be able to do what they want in their own home, however, it's a rented home and if the owner of the building has put a no smoking clause in my lease, I'm sure it's in hers as well. If my flat didn't smell because of it, I wouldn't take issue. Someone would certainly complain about a constantly barking dog if there was a no pet clause, right? Isn't this basically the same thing, only actually a bigger problem in my opinion as it's a health concern...

YANBU. Our downstairs neighbour smokes WEED and it sometimes comes up. We've put extra insulation down all the gaps but since having dd my dp went and had a word. She was a bit stoned mortified (esp as our other neighbours are police officers face palm) and we've had a vague whiff since but it's been mainly disgusting incense sticks since

I'm a LL and my tenancy agreements have no pets and no smoking clauses. Trouble is, these are basically unenforceable as the tenant has the right to quiet enjoyment of their home and if it goes before a judge for a repossession order, there's no guarantee it'll be successful so it's not worth it, how could I gather proof or habitual smoking in the property? All I can do as a LL is to not extend the tenancy when it expires and apply to retain some of the deposit for the smoke damage and deep cleaning.

It depends. Does she rent the property or own it? If it's the latter there is probably not too much you can do about it. If the former, you could check with the landlord to see what her lease clauses are. Also, if she does go outside to smoke, there's a good chance you will get more smoke drifting into your flat through the windows.