Bono's latest tune: Smoke gets in my eyes

New York -- Ubonoono's latest battle over pollution is really close to home -- chimney smoke flowing into his tony New York apartment.

Bono says his complaint about smoky fireplaces in the San Remo apartment building is a health question for his family, which includes an asthmatic child, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

The dispute is over whether smoke from fireplaces, including fellow rocker Billy Squier's, is drifting from chimneys into the penthouse duplex where Bono -- real name Paul Hewson -- lives with his wife and four children.

About a year ago, the co-op board banned the use of fireplaces throughout the building, the Times reported. The Hewsons approached the co-op board about the smoke and related chimney problems.

"Bono was so nice," said Leni May, whose husband Peter is a member of the board. "He said, 'Listen, whatever I can do to get these things working, but it's emptying into my apartment and I can't have smoke like that.'"

A spokesperson for Principle Management, which manages U2, says, "This is not a Bono issue. It's a building issue. It's about health and safety regulations."

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