Jump to full article: The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday (uk), 2009-08-23
Author: MARCUS OSCARSSON
Intro: A Swedish woman has been banned from smoking in her own back garden because her neighbour is allergic to cigarette smoke.
The cigarette row has rocked the city of Akarpin in southern Sweden, where the Environment Court banned Ingela Olofsson from smoking in her yard after hearing that her neighbour - Michael Berggren, a lawyer - has to wear an oxygen mask when walking from the house to the car.
"This is insane," Olofsson said.
The row started when the lawyer bought the house next to Olofsson three years ago. Berggren says that he initially asked her to smoke somewhere else than next to his garden.
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