A Smoking Ban in Your Home

In many regions, there is legislation against smoking in public buildings. Some jurisdictions have banned smoking in cars. Now there is a movement to stop smoking in private homes:

“…The Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawai’i hopes to convince owners of residential rental and condominium buildings to prohibit smoking inside private living areas.

The nonprofit group argues second-hand smoke emanating from the privacy of one unit may affect others when people live in close quarters.”

link: Hawaii studies living-space smoke ban

How would this ever be enforced? Would technology come up with a smoke detector to alert the police when there is a possibility of smoke in your home? It raises obvious questions of privacy - and how you would convince the smoke police that you were not smoking. It was only a cooking mishap.

Catherine Forsythe