I have asthma, too

so i feel your pain.  You can try to get a ground floor apartment the next time, so maybe the smoke won't penetrate to your living as much.  I think you hit it on the head, though, when you said this is not a normal smoker issue.  4 packs a day is tremendous.  Even if you end up with a 1 pack a day smoker below you or next to you, I don't think you'd see as much affect.  Also, most of the smokers I know smoke outside these days even in their own homes.

The other thing you could look into is see if there are smoke free apartment buildings.  We have smoke free everything else, that's always a possibility.

As to the structural aspect of your theory, it's possible, but I don't think in a 40 year old building it is possible to block off every way the smoke is getting in.  Smoke is kind of like water - it'll find a way some how some where.

Good luck.  I can't imagine living with that old smoke odor like that for so long.  Hope you find a place that you like.

• Need opinions. moving from situation - lifetimeMT
  • I've never lived in an apartment building that - TinaK
  • I'm surprised your building even allows smoking -(s/m) - Topaz
    • huh?????? - me
      • I live in WV and....sm - goincrazyquick
        • haha, re-read what I typed.... - goincrazyquick
      • Smoke 'sickers' through the AC, the cracks, up the pipes... - ---
      • I live in the south and my landlord told me NO SMOKING before she would rent to me... - Amanda
      • Sure they can! If they own the building, they can tell - tenants to smoke outside. Topaz
        • Maybe she's thinking of large apartment complexes?? - LinK
      • Actually, they can and they are - Happy MT Robin
        • That's right! If you rent it is NOT your 'own' home. - (And, smoking harms innocent people)
  • i wonder - sm
  • I have asthma, too - Happy MT Robin
    • thanks for your replies..i am moving next week to - lifetimeMT
      • I had this problem too...sm - anon

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So I haven't done any research on this but plan to.  Something I have just been thinking about recently and thought this might be a good place to start.  Who knows, maybe someone here has looked into this topic before and can give me some good info. or starting place.  :) 

I have had asthma since early childhood.  My mother was recently diagnosed with it for the first time in her late 50s.  I am wondering if there is a genetic/hereditary link (or possibility of) and it is something that I should keep in mind with my children.  I had always thought it was more due to environmental with me but now I wonder if there could be more to it with my mom being diagnosed.  I also have pretty severe allergies and my niece was diagnosed with the same, both of us at the age of 3. 

then she might have to work with me and give me another apartment. I will have to check into it. I am in Pennsylvania and I will check it out. It would be a lot less expensive to move to another apartment than to do a whole big move. thanks very much!!

in the apartment below me must smoke 4 packs a day. She never leaves the house and she just closets herself inside smoking all day long until about 2 a.m. and then sleeps late. I can SMELL the minute she wakes up. I KNOW this is second hand smoke and I have been hospitalized three times in the last two years with bronchitis.  I really cant afford to move.  I have complained to the apartment manager about it and she basically said there is nothing she can do.  I have canvassed the apartment and have blocked up every hole I can that this might be seeping through. Now that the colder weather is here, the windows are closed and it is even worse.  I need bigger balls to deal with this and the DH is no help at all because "it doesn't bother him"  but I feel that because my asthma is so bad and I am living with this in my home that he should step up with me on this issue.  I have lived above this lady for 3 years and I am through. This lady knows my problem, I have THREE hepa filters running in my house and have given her a $500.00 ionic breeze quadra professional unit for her living room. Any good words?