To ask if your house smells like smoke

[teaandsmokes]

If you smoke outside and you get inside once finished? Can people who come inside your house smell it? Just curious

*GandalfTheGoat

I can also identify which children have smoker parents from the smell *of a child walking past me.
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Is that really true?

DP and I both smoke, keep saying we want to quit but haven't managed it yet. The thought of DD smelling of smoke has just made me feel a bit sick*

Yes she will smell of smoke. I grew up with both parents smoking and I was picked on a bit for reeking of fags now and again. I refused to hold my Mum and dad’s hands as it made my hands smell. My mum used to think eating polo mints helped smoky breath but she had awful fag breath. Give up ASAP.

@GandalfTheGoat

Absolutely true I'm afraid- genuinely not an exaggeration at all. It's a very strong smell to non-smokers. As Yogafailure says, it will permeate everything in the house- the clothes, the books, and the children- even if smokers are only smoking in the garden, the amount of smoke that hangs around and inside their body and is brought back in is incredible.

Not trying to make you feel bad at all, but I really would strongly encourage you to quit, both for your DD's health and in order to not set a bad example to her. It is very difficult to explain to a child how dangerous smoking can be when their parents smoke themselves.

That's so horrible thank you Fluffy, Walnut & Pinguine

I'm definitely going to try harder to stop now. She's always been my reason for wanting to stop but ignorant as it may have been, I had never thought that she would carry it and smell of it.

My neighbour smokes - her house reeks. It seeps through the walls in certain types of weather!

Smokers always have the smell, even if they say they don't. People who smoke a lot also have a sort of dusty appearance to them. DH's parents smoked for his whole childhood and he said he used to get picked on by his mates about smelling of fags when getting lifts etc.

To the smokers who say ‘ha! No one can smell smoke on ME!’ Do you really think people will randomly walk up to you and say , ‘hey I can smell smoke on you’.

Maybe the particular people who have ‘been so surprised’ that you smoke had reason to be polite or evasive? Maybe they are desensitised to the smell for whatever reason.

The bottom line is that you are smelly. You are not magical. You can’t smoke and not smell of smoke unless you have some way of smoking without any actual smoke.

If I’m in my bedroom and I can smell a bbq in the garden two houses away with closed windows, how do you think it works that you can smell of only Chanel and your lunch? Go to whyquit.com .

Ah I love a good bash the smokers thread. Yes it’s smelly. What a revelation! Saying you can smell it through walls is just ridiculous! People have died in their homes and people don’t smell the decomposing body but you can smell smoke?? Ah you people make me chuckle.

I'm interested in those who say, "some people were surprised when they found out I smoke". How did you mask the smell? What did you do when you've just smoked? I've heard some people have a "smoking jacket" 😂

Saying you can smell it through walls is just ridiculous! People have died in their homes and people don’t smell the decomposing body but you can smell smoke??

You do look a bit silly when you poo-poo something that many people (including me) have found to be absolutely true.

Smokers are incredibly desensitised to the smell of smoke, as it is in their lungs (and therefore nose) throughout their time as a smoker.

Yes, smoke smells can pass through into next door neighbours- in my experience, under the floor through the cavity, and it was a bloody strong smell. They may as well have been in the same room at times.

Why on earth would so many people make up the same lie?!

I don't intend to come across at patronising at all, but there seems to be quite a few ex smokers on here.
Well done to all those that have quit. I'm sure it was pretty tough going. I have no willpower

Yes

Your house clothes hair and all you go near reek.

my flat occasionally smells of smoke. neighbour smokes. some of it drifts through the wall where service pipes come in. (under stairs electric/gas supply, bathroom airing cupboard, water pipes come in. )

hall sometimes smells of smoke if neighbour and I have opened the front doors at a similar time.

I travel a fair bit and have stayed in several hotels and apartments where they state there will be a very large “cleaning fee” if you smoke anywhere in the property. So I smoke in the bathroom with the extractor fan on and run a hot shower `(steam is great for getting rid of smoke) and not once have I been charged. The last apartment I stayed in I smoked out the window and sprayed a lot of air freshener around, and again no problem. Now you can have a go at me all you want for breaking the rules but there’s no way these property owners would not have charged me if they’d had any idea I smoked in these places.

I can smell it in my house when my dbil comes over and is out smoking and then off him too when he comes in. Its disgusting.

DH went to the gym last Saturday morning and the minute he came in the door afterwards I said to him 'Oh you're reeking, we're you at Jane's?' His aunt. I knew straight away because he stank. Thing is she hadn't actually had a cigarette while he was there but just from sitting on the couch and in the room his clothes reeked.
So anyone asking if people would be able to smell smoke off their DC's, I'm afraid the answer is yes. Definitely.

People have died in their homes and people don’t smell the decomposing body

A month old corpse in July is not the same as one in February. A damp house or dry? Heating on or off etc.

Yes, some corpses don’t smell. Cigarette smoke smells. The more you smoke the smellier you, your clothes, homes and kids are.

Storm4star

So a room you stayed four nights in and 20 cigarettes in does not stink. So what? Each cigarette strengthens the smell. One pinch of salt vs a tub of salt. Your home and clothes smell unless you’re the rare type who has one cigarette a day.

I have been told I stink and been told that people were surprised I smoke. It depends on how sensitive the other persons nose is and how much they enjoy feeling morally superior to smokers as to how much they will think you smell imo.

I don't think being able to smell that someone has had a cigarette makes someone feel morally superior. You are just projecting here and being defensive.

no neither do I. but if you read through any smoking thread on here you will see that some people dislike the smell and some feel morally superior to smokers. it's the same with fat people, some feel morally superior and never miss an opportunity to make untrue digs.

One of my friends smokes, and I can tell when she has had a cigarette. I never say anything to her. She always goes out of the house to smoke. My mum died a horrible death from smoking, but I have never told my friend. It is my problem not hers. I dislike the smell and avoid it. It isn't difficult these days.

A porter delivered something to our office today. Ours is a strictly no smoking building so he must have smoked outside. He stank of smoke, and the smell lingered in our office after he had gone. Smokers have no idea how the smell lingers.

And yes, children whose parents smoke smell too

sorry to hear about your mum @lonicera x

The parcel force guy who delivers my Nespresso pods must smoke a ton because we have to quickly empty all the pods out and throw all the packaging in the outside recycling as it smells so bad and that's come out of the back of his van

Yes. I am friends with the owner of the house next door. She rents it out and was very specific that tenants can only smoke outside. I've become friends with my new NDN and she smokes outside (a lot) but the house does smell inside of smoke.

We lived in a terraced house in London and the couple next door smoked in their living room.

We would get strong wafts of the smell from time-to-time - probably when they were actually smoking, or perhaps both windows were open. I don't recall any particular pattern - just the strong smell when we were sitting inside.

I have several colleagues who smoke. Some smell of it a lot stronger than others. One is a recent new starter - she has been with us a few weeks now, and has often had occasion to stand close to me. It was only yesterday that I got a strong waft of stake tobacco off her - I was surprised.

So it seems there's no rhyme or reason.

I have never told a smoker that they smell of smoke - who would do that? Just because nobody's told you...