€250,000 per cigarette: Woman faces shocking fine if smokes on her balcony

‘A Berlin woman has been told she faces six months in jail or a €250,000 fine if she smokes on the balcony of her apartment after 8pm.
The woman, who has been named as Uta F., has lived in her apartment in the quiet Hellersdorfer area of Berlin since 2008 and it seems her habit of an evening cigarette on her balcony has caused great upset to one of her neighbours.
Marcel P., who lives in the apartment directly above Uta, was so bothered by the smoke wafting into her home that she filed a lawsuit.
According to the German newspaper B.Z., the complaint states that “a considerable amount of tobacco smoke… enters the applicant’s home through the predominantly prevailing west wind”.’
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