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Smoking may put tenant out in the cold 

An unusual battle has heated up between a Toronto landlord and her non-smoking tenant, who she wants evicted because his friends lit up inside his apartment.

Christine Cebula, who owns a furnished luxury condo in Yorkville, will take her case to the Ontario Landlord and Tenant Board to try and evict John Davidson, who requested a non-smoking unit and signed a year-long lease agreeing there would be no smoking in it.

She is also seeking $9,900 to cover the cost of replacing linens, towels, broadloom and reupholstering some of the furnishings in the condo, which she previously has rented as short-term accommodation to travelling executives.

But Davidson, who admits friends lit up inside the ninth-floor unit on a few occasions when he wasn't home, says there has been no damage from the smoke. He calls her allegations "bogus."

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