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What bugs me is my apartment manager made me sign a special addendum to my lease promising that I'd keep my cat's litter box clean to keep the place "healthy and odor free." When I complained about all my new neighbors' secondhand smoke (just as or more unhealthy and smelly as the litter box) coming into my apartment and affecting my breathing,she said, "We can't regulate what people do in their own apartments." She wouldn't even consider "smoke-proofing" measures.

My lease is up in three months and I'm outta here. They're losing a tenant who's always had her rent paid on time and will be leaving my apartment in better condition than when I moved in. Believe me,they're going to know why I'm moving! The only way we're going to avoid secondhand smoke in apartments is to get more people to protest.