Couple’s smoking at home snuffed

~ Jason Schwartz

The smoking policy trend continues:

A Golden couple can’t smoke in the townhouse they own after a judge ruled last week that their condominium association can prohibit smoking in their four-unit building.

‘This is my home, and I worked for it,’ Colleen Sauve said Wednesday. ‘I can’t relax and have a cigarette in my own home. If I do, I’ll get fined.’

Sauve and her husband, Rodger, who are both smokers, filed suit in March after the Heritage Hills #1 Condominium Owners Association amended its bylaws to ban smoking. A judge recently ruled against them.

The association was responding to complaints from the Sauves’ next-door neighbor, Penny Boyd, about smoke odor seeping into her unit.

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Published by Jason Schwartz

I have been an addiction professional and social worker since 1994. I started blogging in 2005 as the Clinical Director at Dawn Farm. I currently serve as the Director of Social Work and Spiritual Care for a healthcare system. I've also served as the Director of Behavioral Health at another hospital. I'm also a lecturer at Eastern Michigan University’s School of Social Work. Views expressed here are my own. Keep in mind that the field, the contexts in which the field operates, and my views have changed over time.