Anti-smoking law in Belmont CA - did they go too far?

Belmont, California, is a quiet city of about 25,000 located 23 miles south of San Francisco that now has perhaps the nation's strictest anti-smoking law, effectively outlawing lighting up in all apartment buildings.

Edith Frederickson, a 72-year-old German émigré who has smoked for 50 years is angry.

“They're telling you how to live and what to do, and they're doing it right here in America.”

Frederickson can no longer smoke in the one place she loves the most: her apartment.

Public health advocates are closely watching to see what happens with Belmont, seeing it as a new front in their national battle against tobacco, one that seeks to place limits on smoking in buildings where tenants share walls, ceilings and - by their logic - air.

No doubt real estate apartment managers are also watching the fallout from the smoking ban which may make multi-unit buildings harder to sell and apartments harder to rent.

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