Neighbours cigarette and bbq smoke

Inactive

The neighbours are not doing anything illegal, so your option may be to move to an isolated property.

Gross over reaction IMO.

Craftyscholar

dander wrote: »

There's something about the body's reaction to smoking that dulls the sense of smell, so smokers are usually unaware of quite how strongly they smell to others, and how much the smell can linger. It's also one of the reasons why ex-smokers can be more anti-smoking than people who have never smoked, because once they stop and their sense of smell improves, they become much more aware of the lingering smells.

As an ex-smoker I can confirm that.
I used to visit a non-smoking friend and always went outside her front door for my fix.
It was not until I stopped that I realised how the smell of cigarette smoke clings to your clothing

Not much you can do about BBQ smells though - I regularly get them - not from next door but two houses away.

aliasojo

Inactive wrote: »

The neighbours are not doing anything illegal, so your option may be to move to an isolated property.

Gross over reaction IMO.

I don't think that's fair. It may well be that the OP has to learn to live with it but I don't think her feelings about the matter could be described as a gross over reaction. We all have things that bother us, what may not bug me might infuriate you and vice versa.

Inactive

aliasojo wrote: »

I don't think that's fair. It may well be that the OP has to learn to live with it but I don't think her feelings about the matter could be described as a gross over reaction. We all have things that bother us, what may not bug me might infuriate you and vice versa.

What isn't " fair " about it, the neighbour has every right to do anything legal within the boundaries of their property.

If the OP doesn't like it, they can always move to an isolated property.

Soubrette

Craftyscholar wrote: »

As an ex-smoker I can confirm that.
I used to visit a non-smoking friend and always went outside her front door for my fix.
It was not until I stopped that I realised how the smell of cigarette smoke clings to your clothing

Not much you can do about BBQ smells though - I regularly get them - not from next door but two houses away.

I had a non smoking friend with a smoking hubby. When visiting them he popped out to make 'coffee' and came back reeking of cigarette smoke.

He was genuinely stunned when I asked him if he enjoyed his cigarette (I should have pretended I was psychic )

Since then I've genuinely believed that smokers can't smell anything. Anything smokey anyway.

In the short term OP, could you put a bamboo screen on top of the fence?

aliasojo

Inactive wrote: »

What isn't " fair " about it, the neighbour has every right to do anything legal within the boundaries of their property.

Of course they do.

Just as the OP is entitled to feel any way she wants about it without others judging her feelings.

vaio

aliasojo wrote: »

......I think smokers should be made to wear 'head bubbles'. These would be attractive clear 'fish bowl shaped' head wear which will contain the smoke thus avoiding annoying others and ensuring others are free to breath the good clean air nature supplied us with. They would also save the smoker money in the long run as the effects of the cigs will be inside the bubble and can be breathed in for longer. A small 'non-return' valve would be inset at mouth level and the cig can be inhaled at this point but the smoke would not automatically pass back through. A small hatch could be placed at the top of the bubble to manually allow the smoke to escape upwards, whenever the smoker is about to pass out with the fumes.

Have I just come up with an excellent new invention? Any takers? :rotfl:

Brilliant idea, I’d also market it for non-smokers, feed it from an air cylinder and then the customer could choose the air they wanted, alpine air would be popular, other options could be sea breezes, English countryside etc.

You could have a secondary system that could add smells, bakery, roasting coffee or even smoke for reformed smokers

gerby

live and let live

dander

Inactive wrote: »

What isn't " fair " about it, the neighbour has every right to do anything legal within the boundaries of their property.

It's not about legal "rights", it's about good manners and human decency. We all have a legal right to not help old people and people with prams on and off public transport, or refuse to give a blind person across the road, or anyone of the tiny acts of decency that happen every day. And, in my opinion, if the neighbours have been told politely that all the smoke smells bother the OP, then it would be reasonable of them to try and smoke/bbq further away from the boundary of the gardens, so the smells have more chance of dispersing.

If we all stuck strictly to our legal "rights" regardless of the affect on others, the world would be in a very sorry state.

dander

Craftyscholar wrote: »

It was not until I stopped that I realised how the smell of cigarette smoke clings to your clothing

I find it amazing the way it clings to just anything. Sometimes at work I step into an empty lift, which is all glass and metal and it'll absoutely reek of cigarettes. It's not as if anyone would have been smoking in the lift, just heading back to their desk after a fag break, but somehow they've left a trail.