I have a rental unit in a townhouse complex. The tenants are complaining that the people across the sidewalk from them are smoking out on their deck and the smoke is drifting into my unit through one sliding glass door that the tenants like to keep open for ventilation. There is no rule about smoking on the property. I talked to the owner of the other unit but I don't think she'll do anything.
I'm trying to think of a solution involving fans or blowers, perhaps combined with a cigarette smoke detector to automatically activate fans that blow the smoke back towards the offenders. It's probably a 10 foot distance between the decks.
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Any other ideas for blowing the smoke back?