Help from the Brain Trust of PS.com please

[Gypsy]

I live in a non-smoking building, about 2 years ago they decided no more smoking after one of the tenants fell asleep with a lit cig...created a lot of damage but luckily no one was hurt.

There is a formal addendum to the lease specifically stating NO smoking inside of the apartments, however tenants are free to smoke outside of their doors.

So, lately 1 of 2 tenants in my building has been smoking in their bathroom because I can smell it in mine. The way the building is built toward the front of the apartment there is a block of storage closets, at the back (where the bathroom/bedrooms are) it's all open from 1st to 2nd floor in between apartments (Yeah I can hear the guy next door so I know it's wide open) housing the pipes etc. I know it's not the guy next door smoking, it's coming up from the 1st floor from one of two apartments.

I hate to be a Nazi anti-smoker, but I quit almost 3 years ago and absolutely cannot stand the smell of it. I have complained EVERY time I've smelled it, and they sent out a letter to the "possible offending tenants" reminding everyone that there is NO smoking per the lease, and I received a copy.

I didn't smell smoke for 5 days. Yesterday morning at 5am there it is. Soooo I call again. The guy calls me today and is all sorry but basically states unless they catch the person they can't do anything, they don't know which tenant it is etc. Ok, I can understand that, but that is an excuse and not an action to resolve the problem.

I pay my rent (on time thankyouverymuch) and I do NOT want to smell smoke in my apartment.

How can I "help" them see the light and figure out how to get one of these jerks that is smoking to stop? One time I called it was 6:45pm and suggested they go knock on the doors of the offending parties...didn't happen. Lazy bastard, who lives in the same building, said oh we'll send a letter out. To me, as a renter you only have so many rights and had he gone to check it out that would have been a "caught them in the act" reason to evict or otherwise penalize.

Oh yeah and they offered to move me to another apartment, not an option. I'm not inconveniencing myself because they cannot enforce the terms of the lease.

My lease is up in June, I'm really hoping to move but it may not be possible until 2012.

Ideas/suggestions?