Survey: Clear Majority Would Permit Balcony Smoking
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A majority of Finns don't want their housing associations interfering with the practice of smoking on private balconies. The finding was reported in an online survey by the daily Aamulehti.
70 percent of the respondents said they'd prefer if their housing associations did not intervene in cases of balcony smoking. Just 20 percent would prohibit smoking on balconies.
The Aamulehti survey was conducted last week by the research firm Taloustutkimus, and received responses from 1,003 persons. The survey's margin of error was 3.1 percentage points with a 95 percent level of reliability.
The Supreme Court recently handed down a decision in which smoking cannot be banned across the board in apartment buildings. The case involved a dispute between a housing association and one of its shareholders.
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