Dear Annie: I recently started a new job that I genuinely like. The people are friendly (mostly), the work is interesting and I finally feel like I may have found a place where I can stay for the long haul. But there is just one problem, and it is a big one.

The woman who sits at the reception desk smokes like a chimney, and the smell does not just stay with her. It seeps into every corner of the front office, down the hallway and right into the waiting area. By the time I get home, my lungs feel like I have run a marathon through a bonfire. I have asthma, and I end most days with congestion, a runny nose and let us just say tissues full of proof that secondhand smoke does not have to be visible to do damage.

It is not just me. One of the girls in the back agrees the odor is awful, but e

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