At the last Board meeting, one of the Lanikea Owners brought up an issue of exposure of her family, including kids, to a second-hand smoke. It is a matter of scientific consensus, that the exposure to a second-hand smoke, also known as passive smoking, causes disease, disability, and death: http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/CancerCauses/TobaccoCancer/secondhand-smokeThe freedom of smokers to smoke is fine with me (I used to smoke). However, it is not fine when it harms others, as it inevitably does in a close community living environment, such as an apartment / condo building. I too have been exposed to a second-hand smoke in our Lanikea unit and certainly don't enjoy it.
The question is: can Lanikea be made a smoke-free building? The answer is: yes, it can if enough Lanikea Owners vote to make it so. Lanikea could be a premiere smoke-free building in Waikiki. What do you think?
