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Smoking bans should be part of lease: landlords 

The standard apartment lease provided by the Quebec Rental Board should be amended to include a specific clause that allows or prohibits smoking on the premises, Quebec's largest landlord association said Friday.

"It is up to the owner to decide if a smoking ban is justified when a lease is signed, at the risk of losing possible tenants," said Hans Brouillette, spokesperson for the Corporation des propriétaires immobiliers du Québec.

Commonly known as CORPIQ, the lobby group says 277,000 Quebec landlords own 1.3 million dwellings across the province.

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