Naomi Baker thinks it香蕉视频直播檚 fine that the provincial government declared the last week in June to be 香蕉视频直播淪moke-Free Multi-Unit Housing香蕉视频直播� week, but it would be even better if the government actually did something about the issue.

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She was reacting to a call by the Clean Air Coalition of BC, which includes the B.C. Lung Association, Heart and Stroke Foundation, and Canadian Cancer Society, for provincial action during the week to make it easier to ban smoking.

After her daughter, Faith, was born, Baker fought to stop second-hand smoke leaking into their unit through the walls and fixtures, setting up an and also .

In April, Baker and her husband delivered a petition for stronger anti-smoking rules to provincial housing minister Selina Robinson in Victoria.

Robinson seemed receptive, Baker said, but she is still waiting to hear more.

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Whatever sort of regulation emerges, Baker stressed, it shouldn香蕉视频直播檛 allow smoking even when a majority of people in a multi-unit building support it.

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Coalition spokesperson Jack Boomer declared existing regulations make it 香蕉视频直播渆xtraordinarily difficult, time-consuming, costly, and seldom effective for residents, strata management, and landlords, to effect change on their own.香蕉视频直播�

香蕉视频直播淲e need government intervention,香蕉视频直播� Bommer maintained.

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Boomer repeated the coalition call for 香蕉视频直播減ractical, positive change香蕉视频直播� pointing to recommendations outlined in a coalition-sponsored report released in 2016.

One of the Coalition香蕉视频直播檚 recommendations includes making it possible, under BC香蕉视频直播檚 Residential Tenancy Act (RTA), for landlords to implement premises-wide no smoking policies that apply to all tenants, with no grandfathering requirements.

Tenants who smoke would be given six months to comply.

The Coalition report also recommends all new strata buildings should be automatically smoke-free, as opposed to current regulations which requires 75 per cent of owners to approve a ban.

One in two British Columbians live in multi-unit dwellings, and given the high cost of housing, and our aging population, the proportion of people living one atop and aside one another will continue to grow, Boomer estimated.

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