Smoking is Bad for Your Neighbor's Health

I am not a smoker. Smoke from cigarettes for me is as offensive as the stench of Durian to my nostrils... of course, not to mention that smoking is B-A-D for your health. Of course its a known fact that smoking can be addictive and that once hooked, one consumes packets and packets of it in a day.

I recently got married and live in a new neighborhood. We have a neighbor who lives in the apartment next to us who we see everyday doing only three things: smoking, sipping coffee, and hand-washing clothes in front of their unit. There is a tall building in front of our apartment block so whenever he smokes, the smoke has no where else to go but through the windows and into the house. We have already talked to him nicely about it... and he obliges by moving away--but after a time, the smoke is there again. We smell the smoke early in the morning, late at night, even after midnight, in the afternoon, both on the first and second floor of our apartment.

If people want to smoke, then fine, its their life and they can do whatever they want to do with it. But the line stops when there are other people around while they smoke who do their best to take care of their health. Secondhand smoke (SMS) they call it. It does even more damage to health than the effect of actually smoking.

Isn't it bad enough that we live in one of the most air-polluted city in the world?