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Midnight Toker — Smoking Kills

What can we do about our new neighbors who smoke? By the way, don’t they know smoking kills. They’re night birds that smoke out on our adjacent balconies late into the night! We can’t open our windows without smelling tobacco smoke.

–TY, West Pam Beach, FL

Smoking kills. That should be your point.
      Invite the new neighbors for coffee or a drink. Over the course of twenty minutes let them know how you feel about smoking.
      If they fully understand how disappointed you are at having their new neighbors’ tobacco smoke drifting into your bedroom, they may start smoking inside with the air conditioners blasting.
      If window in the conversation opens up, tell them that:
  • On average, smoking kills 1,200 smokers every day.
  • Every year, more people die from smoking than murder, AIDS, suicide, drugs, car accidents, and alcohol combined.
  • Smoking causes heart disease, emphysema, acute myeloid leukemia, and cancer of the mouth, esophagus, larynx, lung, stomach, kidney, bladder, and pancreas.
  • Smoking also causes reduced fertility, low birthweight in newborns, and cancer of the cervix.

~Didi

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