{"id":17873,"date":"2013-08-15T12:39:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T19:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/lets-clean-up-the-unhealthy-smoke\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T05:35:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T12:35:33","slug":"lets-clean-up-the-unhealthy-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/lets-clean-up-the-unhealthy-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s clean up the unhealthy smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Many of us here in Kent live in apartment complexes close to several neighbors and their families. It seems to me that a few can easily make it difficult for others.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The two things that are impacting me now both have to do with smells and smoke: cigarettes and charcoal barbecues. A bunch of chain smokers moved into the apartment under me and when they smoke, my living room turns into an ash tray. Likewise, one buffoon dousing his barbecue with too much lighter fluid turns the enter patio area for many people into a smelly gas chamber.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I think it&#8217;s high time someone in our state Legislature extends the bans on smoking in public places to multifamily housing units. It should not be OK to smoke anywhere near people (and small children) who don&#8217;t smoke. And if you want to barbecue at an apartment, get a clean gas grill.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>If someone wants to foul their nest, then do so. &#8230; but buy a house with a lot of land first. Other people should not have to be impacted by your addictions and vices,<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>And a final warning to landlords. In California, a second-hand smoke case was decided &#8230; in favor of the non-smokers who were awarded $15,000. Do you want to start handing out a year&#8217;s worth of free rent? Then clean up your acts and ban the smokers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 John Bailo<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us here in Kent live in apartment complexes close to several neighbors and their families. It seems to me that a few can easily make it difficult for others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-17873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17873"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}