I tutor primary kids in their own homes through a good agency. One family that I work with twice a week has a father that smokes cigars. When I started almost two years ago, this was not a problem as they lived in a house with a garden and he smoked out there. A year ago they moved to a flat with no outside space. He travels a lot so is often not there when I am there (he works from home when he is there). But when he is home, he smokes his cigars. I am finding increasingly that he does this while I am there as he uses that time to work while I am with the child. Although he is smoking in a separate room with the door shut and I am in another room with the door shut, the smell is everywhere. I feel like I am spending two hours breathing in his smoke and then I come home with all my clothes, hair, coat etc reeking of it. And cigar smoke is really a horrible horrible smell.
Now I realise it is his own home and he has the right to smoke and do what he likes in it. But it is also my "workplace" and I have reached the end of my tether. I like the family and don't want to alienate them. And they like me - a lot. Asking him not to smoke while I am there seems an enormous imposition. But I have no idea what else to do. Any other tutors that have been in this position?