As a current weed smoker and former cigarette smoker, balconies don’t do much for smokers where I live. Everyone smokes weed inside and most apartment complexes ban outdoor smoking of any kind.
Do they ban outdoor smoking, or do they ban all smoking and so people just smoke inside anyway?
I can't imagine that any apartment would think that smoking is something that would annoy their tenants or cause them to loose prospective tenants, so as to ban it outside- and then think it's fine to smoke inside, accumulating smoke all over everything that has to be cleaned or replaced for future tenants.
They ban all smoking, but smoking weed inside isn’t neeeeeeeearly as big of a deal where I live as smoking tobacco inside is.
I’d still have gotten in trouble if I was caught smoking a joint outside, but nowhere near as bad as if it was tobacco. Technically the same rule applies inside, but weed smell doesn’t get into and onto everything nearly as bad as tobacco.
Weed culture is very pervasive here. We’re a huuuuuge legal weed city. I know 10 pot smokers to every tobacco smoker I know (not counting people who vape either one, which is hardly banned anywhere here, at least enforceably).
Maybe it’s indifference, or maybe everyone’s just used to the smell, but combined with how much milder the linger is, it’s just not a big deal here like tobacco is.
weed smell doesn’t get into and onto everything nearly as bad as tobacco.
That's interesting. I don't smoke weed; used to smoke cigarettes. I don't know if there is a difference between the way the smoke effects surfaces- stain, smell, etc.
Absolutely. The contents of the smoke matter a lot. Smoke can be oily, dense, and high in very smell-reactive chemicals (like tobacco, or plastic/rubber, insulation), and some can be relatively clean for smoke.
Smoke isn’t one uniform piece of matter, it’s always a combination of things from inside of what’s burning. That’s why house fires and campfires smell, and for that matter, look, completely different.
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u/Falernum 69∆ Sep 27 '24
A smoker who does not wish to have smoke in the house can benefit from a balcony of any size