Cigarette Smoke Problem | Home Improvement, Gardening

One of the most encountered problems is of the cigarette smoke which is offensive for many people and also downright harmful. One such problem is being faced by one lady. She has taken a lot of precautions to keep her apartment insulated from cigarette smoke but still is having problem  of smoke leaking from the adjoining apartments through the walls. Though problem is genuine, there is really not solutions for such cases. Her only way is to move out from this building and get accommodation in some non-smoking building.

Cigarette smoke from neighboring apartments leaking through walls?

I’ve lived in this apartment for two and a half months and I cannot stand it. My eyes hurt, my throat is swollen and I get headaches. The previous tenants were smokers but when I moved in I washed everything down twice; walls, floors (laminate), even the inside of the baseboard heaters. I painted the ceilings as well. I have an air purifier running in my bedroom and it really helps. In the bathroom there are two large holes in the wall – one under the sink for access to pipes and one above that previously housed an aging medicine cabinet that didn’t quite fit. I covered both with plastic, along with the bathroom fan vent and kitchen fan vent. I’ve insulated all wall outlets and telephone things, sealed all holes from nails and such with silicone. The hallway does not often smell (it’s illegal to smoke in common areas but sometimes people leave their doors open and the smell escapes) but I used expanding weather stripping all around the door. The walls joining apartments are solid but the walls inside apartments are hollow – these are the walls that stink. Some days it’s almost tolerable, some days it smells as though someone is smoking right beside you. The ceilings/floors are all concrete slabs. Its all baseboard heating, no AC. Pretty basic, simple place. The building was built mid seventies. The building is 6 stories. I don’t know what else to do. I know I should just move, so I’d don’t need the reminder. I won’t be asking management or my landlord for assistance, they don’t care and I don’t care to fight it. Anything else I’m missing? It’s seems to be coming through the hollow walls, any reasonable fix(es)?

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