The pros and cons of living closely.

A North Vancouver condo owner is suing her neighbor over second-hand smoke from the neighbors patio claiming that the smoke is "a nuisance causing her stress, irritability and disrupting her sleep". Now this sounds like a polarizing issue -Where do you draw the line between a persons right to smoke on their property and the rights of another to not have smoke pouring into their windows?

As living gets more dense in the city we live in closer proximity with our neighbors and a lot of personality variables enter the mix. Thankfully most conflicts can be worked out between neighbors and don't end up in Court or degenerate into a Hatfield and McCoy situation, but now that this one has I wonder if the stress of being sued is driving the neighbor to smoke even more?