02/16/2016

Another continuation from the previous day, indoor smoking/drug use continues to enter my unit from E26 in Building E of the South 67 Condos.  Last night I started using the collection of links about the individual that is causing the problem again, later stated that if it is as strong as it was the last two nights (where I had to bring additional air purifiers into my room), I would be leaving it up until I got woke up (or got out of bed anyways); 3 nights ago I had to bring in an additional air purifier into my bedroom to the one I normally use while sleeping, the following night I had to bring in every air purifier I owned & both nights there was a scented candle burning on top of the air purifiers.

When I woke up around sometime between 11 AM & 12 PM, the smell of hookah was strong enough to cause a non-stop coughing fit.  This continued until some time after I started the stream, but the last part of the coughing fit got picked up in the stream.  As the day continues, because of the episode this morning when I woke up, the slightest amount of pollution causes yet another coughing fit.

At this point I am looking into getting health inspectors involved in the matter to see if a notice to the HOA/Building Management would force some official steps against the problem, where they have been unwilling to do in the past (the Building Manager has taken unofficial steps in the past, but seeing as that doesn't include fines or anything, the owner of E26 hasn't taken them seriously), but that is no longer the case as he has cut off any help he was giving me previously on the matter.  In the past I have not been successful about this, however I attempted to make a complaint with the Bureau of Sanitation and Safety; the complaint type when I used the option on their automated system transferred me to the Utah Tobacco Prevention & Control program, which I have contacted before on this matter & they have attempted to help with it, however didn't get anywhere since the Building Manager simply shoved them off to their lawyers.  I need to get an actual health inspector involved, so I'll have to keep calling them until I find one that will follow up on this matter, then perhaps they'll forward the matter to the correct authorities to get something done about it.

Health problems from indoor pollution today:

• Blurry Vision
• Coughing
• Dizziness
• Headaches
• Irritated Eyes
• Migraines
• Nausea
• Ringing Ear
• Trouble Breathing

UPDATE:  As expected, the indoor pollution started after the stream was shut off, but it didn't start again until maybe an hour or so after stopping it (I would expect the guy thought I was asleep or away).  I decided not to say anything about it for the time because I was testing just how effective the Febreze Car Vent Clips were.  It doesn't fully clear up the pollution coming from other units, but it does help if I use the air purifier with it.  The vent clips are too strong if the pollution is not happening, so I'll have to make it a habit of pulling them out while it's happening rather than leaving them around while it's not happening & causing another smell to cause problems (only because these things are particularly strong).  I know the pollution got particularly strong since even in the hallway, the clip wasn't enough to clean that pollution in my home office (about 6 feet away).  So I doubt they're going to be strong enough to keep the pollution at bay when that jerk is going all out.  I'm going to see how it helps while I'm trying to sleep tonight, hopefully it will be strong enough to clean up the high levels of pollution coming from E26.  For the time being, I am going to leave the streams off, unless the pollution gets strong enough that the vent clips really aren't helping.  Smell is one matter, but the pollution for the last few months has been strong enough that it also hurts my eyes, so that's another problem with it that I don't believe Febreze is going to help with...

UPDATE:  As expected, the pollution started up again after I shut off the stream.  As to when it started again, that's to be determined...  With the Febreze clips, it was hard to smell the pollution & I guess that was the point of it, however they're a bit too strong for an enclosed (indoor) environment.  While they definitely make dealing with the pollution more tolerable, they are a lot stronger than what should be used indoors.  The pollution could be noticed when it got particularly strong, as I probably wouldn't have noticed it in any room where I had one of those clips otherwise.  It could also be noticed when I entered a room that didn't have one in it, so going from one room to another would always mean you got hit in the face with it.  As a result of this, I was pretty well coughing all day & night & didn't get much sleep because of it (maybe 2 hours tops).  I have some important things I need to take care of today, so I won't be able to go back to bed until I complete those tasks.

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