Smoke-Free Housing Forum coming to Riverdale Nov. 16

We've written about this issue before, and later this month the community will have a chance to discuss this issue, which has the potential to be a very divided conversation. Riverdale Smoke Free Housing Forum

Group seeks to ban smoking - even in your home

Sorry for the absence of posts last week. I took a much needed vacation to Philadelphia--great city, horribly annoying sports fans. Anyways, here is a post from this past week's edition of the Riverdale Review.

By Brendan McHugh

They forbade you in bars, restaurants, parks and beaches, and now they’d like to see you kicked the habit in your own home.

The BronxSmoke-Free Partnership is asking apartment buildings to not allow smoking the same way workplaces and, recently, parks and beaches do not allow it. Citing statistic after statistic, the Partnership’s David Lehmann explained Monday night to Community Board 8’s housing committee why more people would prefer to live in smoke-free housing. 

“Smokers don’t have any rights…to pollute my lungs,” he said.

But right now, the Partnership is only asking for buildings to volunteer for the program; Lehmann said they are “not even close to thinking about” asking for legislation. They’ve received support from a number of different Bronx City Council members, all of who supported the ban on smoking in parks and beaches.

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