As an apartment dweller for the last 25+ years, this is great news.

I lived in an apartment for 5 years and the guy living in the apartment below mine was a heavy smoker. Even if I closed my windows the smoke would travel through the vents and electrical outlets and fill my apartment with smoke. My apartment always smelled like a stale ashtray. I finally had to move because I thought my good health was being compromised.

The next step is to require people who smoke while driving to roll up their windows so the people driving behind them don't have to inhale the fumes.

The next step will be SWAT raids to confiscate your potato chips, Coca-Cola, and Ding-Dongs.

This is a ludicrous invasion of the right of a free and stupid people to poison themselves as they see fit in the privacy of their own home. We may all end up like the floating-chaise-lounge fatties in "Wall-E" but the smokers will just die first.

"SWAT raids to confiscate your potato chips, Coca-Cola, and Ding-Dongs"

Sure, cuz they really harm a person with Asthma. And cost California 18 billion in 2009.

Not.

"the right of a free and stupid people to poison themselves"

Wrong. Second smoke and it's harm is real. As is the cost to society.

Smoking this year in CA will cost us all BILLIONS. But don't listen to me...

"Fewer Californians are lighting up cigarettes now than in the past, but smoking still cost the state $487 for each of its residents, or $18.1 billion total, in 2009, a new UCSF study found.
That staggering figure is brought on by health care costs, loss of productivity due to illness and premature death."

Today's paper: Web Link

Old Curmudgeon: I don't mind if "free and stupid people" purposely poison themselves but I do mind if they poison me. Like I said, smoke in multi unit dwellings cannot be contained but will travel through every little opening in the walls, including air ducts, vents and electrical outlets. Why should a non smoker be forced suffer the ill effects of second hand smoke?

While I'm a proponent of non-smoking, I don't see how this ordinance is even remotely legal.

Smoking is LEGAL. That's a fact. It's restricted in many public areas (restaurants, offices, bars, etc, even outside in some public areas), but if your residence is now a part of that list, it's making smoking defacto illegal.

On principal, I hope someone fights this. I don't see how they'd lose.

Peninsula resident, I don't believe that a law banning smoking infringes on anyones privacy because smoking is not a private matter as long as the smoke is traveling through the walls and into the neighbor's apartment. When the smoke enters my bedroom through the electrical outlet and heating ducts, smelling up everything including my clean clothes, I consider it an invasion of my private closet! If the smoke could be contained I wouldn't mind, but it can't be. Also, cigarette smoke stains and odors are extremely difficult to get rid of because it leaves a film of brown tobacco on everything - windows, carpet, walls, appliances, etc. To clean up an apartment that was occupied by a smoker requires intense cleaning and repainting, which I'm sure most landlords don't want to deal with.

Next to be banned
Leaf blowers - dust and fumes
All fire places - smoke and fumes
BBQ - smoke and fumes
Perfume, cologne
Cooking with garlic and curry
Air fresheners
Halitosis
And on and on and on

Next to be banned
Leaf blowers - dust and fumes

>>>Been tried. Too many wealthy people refuse to pay their gardeners to rake leaves.

All fire places - smoke and fumes

>>>wood burning fireplaces banned except for Certified Rumford fireplaces or catalytic manufactured units

BBQ - smoke and fumes

>>>I'm sure someone will try

Perfume, cologne

>>>If only

Cooking with garlic and curry

>>>cooking garlic smells good! Curry? meh

Air fresheners

>>>Really?

Halitosis

>>>That would be nice

I do find it hilarious how some who are posting here feel that this ban on smoking is somehow the first step towards tyranny.

Never mind, of course, that these same posters would want to outlaw certain actions they object to, and wouldn't care if it was legal or not...

ChilL Mr. Troll.
Some of us do post tongue in cheek. A little humor is healthy. Smoke maybe not so much.

Good thing Gail lives in a house.

Bring back prohibition too! It worked so well the first time. Really people??