Jump to full article: Kitchener-Waterloo (ONT) Record (ca), 2009-09-26
Author: Frances Barrick, Record staff
Intro: Complaints from tenants about second-hand smoke have prompted Waterloo Region to consider banning smoking in their multi-unit dwellings.
“In general, I would support some kind of restrictions with respect to second-hand smoke” said Coun. Sean Strickland, chair of regional council’s community services committee, which oversees regional housing.
A report on the issue is slated to be before regional council next month.
Strickland said the issue is riddled with concerns such as a municipality’s right to prohibit a person from smoking in their own home to enforcement of such a ban.
The region receives an average of five calls a month from tenants complaining about second-hand smoke seeping into their dwellings from other units and open windows.
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