Smell in my house from next door

natasha24

Car fumes don't cause cancer and stroke. I have no agenda, I just don't want to be forced to breathe in fumes that will give me cancer or my three son asthma. As far as I'm concerned I really don't care if people smoke as long as they don't do it around me or through my house. This thread is for people with similar complaints so why have you posted with such a pointless comment? Are you bored honey?

natasha24

Antoine1 wrote: »

Dear you should checked out your door may be any rat or other Insect
is died in your door and become the reason of smell..

It is Tobacco smoke, they smoke like trains.

phill99

natasha24 wrote: »

It is Tobacco smoke, they smoke like trains.

Trains are all electric now.

NeverInDebt

No but they can kill you nonetheless if you are close enough to an exhaust and confined space ie carbon monoxide poising

natasha24 wrote: »

Car fumes don't cause cancer and stroke.

natasha24

NeverInDebt wrote: »

No but they can kill you nonetheless if you are close enough to an exhaust and confined space ie carbon monoxide poising

Maybe smokers should smoke an exhaust pipe

natasha24

phill99 wrote: »

Trains are all electric now.

So are some cigarettes, it should be made law for smokers to have the electronic ones instead of fouling up the air with their disgusting habit.

By the way, love, "smoking like trains" is a figure of speech. My son has autism and takes things literally but even he understands what is meant by figure of speech, so what is your excuse?

Now does anybody have anything useful to say such as advice on air purifiers and if they work or not?

natasha24

Antoine1 wrote: »

Dear you should checked out your door may be any rat or other Insect
is died in your door and become the reason of smell..

I can hardly understand what you've just said. A rat is an insect? Your English is deplorable! You should go back to school and learn grammar and comprehension instead of sitting there wasting your life smoking and paying the Tobacco company's CEO enough to buy sports cars, expensive holidays and private health care. They are living the good life while poor sods like yourself have yellow teeth, gum disease, fatty substance in your circulatory system, premature wrinkles, smelly clothes and shorter life expectancy. What a waste.

Grunaki

Sorry all these people are getting on your back, Natasha. They seem to have taken exception to what they appear to consider an 'anti-smoking agenda'..

To those people - Well, OK, so you enjoy your cigarettes, but to those of us who don't smoke it smells disgusting, and when you're a non-smoker and it starts getting into your personal space it's like a form of mental torture.

Many's the time I've gone to sleep coughing because matey-boy next door decided to have a 'nice bacca' before he went to bed.. I can't even kip on the couch downstairs because it comes through even worse down there.. It smells like they're actually smoking in the room with you!

The main thing that the people with the "oh, don't be so soft / PC!" position should consider is that they have made a concious decision to smoke cigarettes because they enjoy them. That's fair enough. I don't want to stop anyone from doing things that they enjoy. However, when the thing you enjoy negatively impacts your neighbours, it's creating a nuisance and that should never be allowed. One person or group of persons' pleasure should never be permitted to cause someone else discomfort.

To put it in context - if I lived next door to you and I enjoyed listening to my stereo at a level that drowned out your TV at full volume and caused your pictures to fall off the walls, and you came over to complain, how would you feel if my reaction was "well, I ENJOY listening to my stereo at full volume in my own home! How dare you try and stop me!" or if I enjoyed cooking spicy food and the smell leached through into your house and made you uncomfortable, and again my reaction was "well eff you! I can cook my mega-vindaloos if I like! It's got nothing to do with you!"

However, smokers seem to think they have some sort of special protected status that allows them to indulge their habit at others' expense - probably because it's an addiction and they get !!!!y when people stop them from fulfilling it - but they need to stop and realize that it's not just about them satisfying their craving and that others have just as much right to not smoke (and that includes inhaling second-hand smoke) as they do TO smoke.

(Sorry for the diatribe, just having to live it gets my goat..)

Jaynne

Grunaki I'm fully in agreement with you in my hatred of the smell of smoking - its hard to describe the reaction I feel to it but nauseating wouldn't be far off so having that smell all the time would drive me bonkers.

However your analogy is a difficult one. Sure if your neighbours played loud music at unsociable hours there are well established routes to go down with that. Your example of cooking pungent food is pretty good though. There are no tests to say what is too smelly (or smoky though in this case you could probably do a particulate test I doubt it would be high enough to breach any safety thresholds). Should an Indian family who only cook currys change their diet because you don't like the smell?

Sadly I think the only sane response is no and that it's your responsibility to seal your home from them. That may be a big job taking up the floorboards and sealing all the joists but that's probably the only way around it.

southcoastrgi

i do feel sorry for all the non-smokers on here & the smell you don't like, but have you thought how much money the smokers of this country put into the government & then into the NHS, if smoking was banned this country would be in an even bigger mess & prices would have to go up on everything, so you may not like the smell but it does put a lot of money into the pot (why do you think the government is so against you buying from abroad), anyway just my 5p worth.