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Condominiums CAN Go Smoke-Free: Two Condo Boards' Instructive Efforts
Written by Bill Morris on August 28, 2012
Don Bilodeau, board president of a 72-unit condo in Astoria, Queens, started hearing two kinds of complaints about cigarette smoke shortly after he moved into the building in 2007. The first was about people smoking in common areas, which is forbidden in the bylaws. The second was about people smoking so heavily inside their apartments that the smoke was leaking into common areas.
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