Smokers Told to Fetter Their Fumes
Smokers Told to Fetter Their Fumes: "The Montgomery County [Virginia] Council yesterday approved one of the most restrictive anti-smoking measures in the nation... Under the county's new indoor air quality standards, tobacco smoke would be treated in the same manner as other potentially harmful pollutants... If the smoke wafts into a neighbor's home -- whether through a door, a vent or an open window -- that neighbor could complain to the county's Department of Environmental Protection... Smokers, and in some cases landlords or condominium associations that fail to properly ventilate buildings, would face fines of up to $750 per violation if they failed to take steps to mitigate the problem..."
