Jump to full article: Chatham (Ont) Daily News (ca), 2009-11-05
Author: ELLWOOD SHREVE, THE DAILY NEWS
Intro: Russell Chandler has smoked for more than 50 years, but he is willing to curb his habit to be more neighbourly.
He is one of approximately 90 tenants of the South Chatham Village Apartments who will have to adapt to a smoking ban coming effect at the apartment complex, Jan 1, 2010.
"There's no hard feelings that they're doing that," Chandler said.
Martin Vanderzwan, chairman of the apartment's board of directors, said the smoking ban has been motivated by reducing the risk of fire and reducing the known health effects of secondhand smoke.
He said most of the residents responded to a survey on implementing the ban.
"It was almost unanimous that we should have a nonsmoking policy," Vanderzwan said.
There are 67 units in the building, including seven or eight units occupied by smokers, he said.
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