[geeks] combatting smokers

[Tim H.]

Even if the ventilation systems share a common output, a little positive
pressure should fix the problem, either turn on the fan, or attach a fan
blowing into the vent, and you should not get smoke back in.  It
shouldn't take much of a fan either, just create a positive pressure in
your leg of the system, and the air will go somewhere else.  

I also have physical symptoms from second hand smoke, in spite of the
fact that I actually like the smell, but I have always felt that smokers
are really getting screwed right now.  Why should the guy who needs
coffee to function get it company supplied indoors, while the guy who
needs a smoke to function has to go stand in the snow on the loading
dock?  I am all for a smoke free workplace, but geez, a properly
ventilated smokers breakroom can't be that expensive.

My personal solution to all annoying neighbor problems was to get away
from them, out in the boonies, house well back from the road, (invisible
actually) driveway that suggests the use of 4 wheel drive.  My wife grew
up a city girl, and she moved to the country with trepidation, but 6
months out here and she was probably more anti-city than I am.

People suck.  Almost all individuals are fine, but people as a group
suck.

Tim

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:49:05 -0500 (CDT)
Amy <scoobydoo at ohno.mrbill.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, David Cantrell wrote:
> > I'd say there's something wrong with the ventilation if it's sucking
> > air from his kitchen and pumping it in to yours, so yes, you should
> > be able to get the management company to fix it.
> 
> Wrong. Chances are, if the ventilation hood system for all the
> apartments is hooked together (which I've never heard of but hey, I've
> heard of stranger things), the building is old enough that the design
> is well-Grandfathered in and thus the building owners don't have to do
> a thing. It'd be different if it was a brand new building and subject
> to newer building/fire codes.
> 
> The most he might be able to accomplish is to ask the managers if he
> could move to another apartment next to a non-smoker and hope they
> stick around.
> 
> --a
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