This can not, or at least should not pass.
If it does pass, somebody down there gotta know something about rights.
Here's a simple concept...
The place you call home... your Dwelling place.... is a place where you call home. You eat, sleep, watch tv, have sex, drink your brains out, do whatever...... Most of which is not in view of anybody.
A home is something you can claim as a place where you can relax and do what you want to (Within reason of course) nobody has the right to tell you what you can and can not consume into your body where you live, behind closed doors.
Apartment and Condo complexes as being private companies can make this decision as they own the property, but the government has no say in the matter at all.
In order to even attempt to enforce this, what do they plan on doing? Knocking on everybody's doors with warrants to check for ashtrays?
You know.... for something that's still "Legal" there sure is a load of BS surrounding everything that involves it. We have illegal Pot, E, Shrooms and all of that stuff, yet there are no laws specifically stating where you can or can not do those things.
Yeah there are stupid laws out there now for getting permits for adding to your house, property taxes, and all that crap.... but that has nothing to do with what you choose to do recreational-wise.
I'm sorry..... I'll pay my rent and I'll keep the place clean and in once piece, but ain't nobody telling me what I can or can not do in my own home..... plain and simple..... esspecially when it comes to something that is still
perfectly legal.
Actually there was a lawsuit between a landlord and a tennant for smoking, and the smoker won:
Montreal woman can smoke in her apartment: rental board Quote:
A woman who wants to smoke in her Montreal apartment despite her landlords' objections has won her fight to light up.
In a July 4 ruling published Tuesday, Quebec's rental board said Sandra-Ann Fowler is allowed to smoke in her Ville-Émard area apartment even though her landlords tried to prevent her from using tobacco in the dwelling.
Fowler's landlords, Olesia Koretski and Matthew Newland, tried to ban tobacco in the apartment by including a no-smoking clause in the application form used for the unit.
Fowler filled out the form but did not sign it and said there were no non-smoking clauses in her first lease, signed in 2006, and the 2007 renewal.
The rental board said an application form is not a binding document and tenants can't be held to its specifications.
But the door is still open for landlords who want to ban smoking by including a clause in their rental lease. No one has challenged a no-smoking lease clause at the Quebec Rental Board.
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Not the same situation, however it does show that smokers can still win a fight or two.