Smoking seniors are all fired up!

Dear Editor: In response to the letter entitled “Smoke rings not appreciated” some of us smokers at Fox Hill are concerned with all; those who smoke and those non-smokers who reside in our complex. However, it’s become quite hypocritical for those who talk of respiratory problems, second hand smoke and difficulty breathing when they themselves find no problem walking the streets with exhaust fumes from automobiles and buses on some of the busiest thoroughfares in our county! These same individuals who claim to have serious ailments never find it difficult to sit out on their terraces and breathe in the carbon monoxide that encompasses Willow Avenue and Washington Street! Shame on you! There are many of you non-smokers who never hesitate to complain at the local parish bingo halls who have designated smoking areas within the same confines as the non-smoking areas. And those of you who express outrage about the notion of a designated smoking area for seniors at Fox Hill Gardens (and you know who you are) are the same individuals who never frequent or participate in any social functions held in our community room. Smokers and non-smokers alike congregate and enjoy each other’s company with nary a complaint! Come down to your community room on occasion and see how smoking is really a “non-issue.” Let’s stop the game playing and let’s stop these gestapo tactics of instilling the fear of fines and eviction on those seniors who happen to smoke. Perhaps it is time for those of us who smoke to contact the Smoker’s Rights Association of America and have them come to Hoboken and watch elderly seniors who smoke being “fined” and “evicted” by the Board of Health and the Hoboken Housing Authority. Maybe those of you who claim to be prisoners in your own apartments can enthusiastically “applaud” Mr. Sasso and the Hoboken Housing Authority while your neighbors who smoke are “thrown into the streets”! Believe me, I would not hold my “breath” waiting for that to happen. Concerned seniors

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