To ask if your house smells like smoke

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

No, my house does not smell of smoke. We rent abroad and there’s nothing in our contract to say we can’t smoke inside. I smoke a couple a day. Outside. Always outside.

We have no smoking inside our uk house on the tenancy contract. Always find some fag butts on the garden when we check the property. That’s fine. We’ve had a lot of work done to our house and there are smoke alarms everywhere. I couldn’t smoke inside my own house even if I wanted to. yes I could take the batteries out.

When I think back to when we could smoke in pubs, clubs, bars and restaurants I realise how bad we all smelled. Everyone. And waking up in the morning with smelly clothes in the bedroom. It was disgusting.

I can tell when people at work go out for a smoke then get in the lift afterwards as it reeks of cigarette smoke

This. A few times I've got in the lift at work & then got straight out again because of the stink.

The fag butts. That's another thing. People who wouldn't dream of leaving other litter on the ground throw them everywhere. Just why? And then the people who leave them lying around in their own gardens. I went to collect a parcel from a neighbour a few months ago. She has a lovely little house in the middle of huge beautiful gardens. There were fag butts all round the front door. She has young children

to answee the OP, yes, it does smell, and yes, it does linger. Third-hand smoke is a thing. I had someone to fix our bathroom fan and the bathroom still smelled of the smoke on his hair and clothes five minutes after he had left.

In an age where we're (nominally) obsessed with being 'healthy', our continued tolerance of other people's smoke astonishes me. I'm convinced future generations will ban it completely.

Both my parents were heavy smokers. I hated them smoking in the car as I got car sick, but I was otherwise nose blind until I went to boarding school at 8. The smell of fags from my mum’s letters used to make me feel homesick. We had two lay (not nun) matrons, all the girls liked the young one, but I preferred the older, gruffer one because she smelt like my mum (fags)
After being away at school though, I struggled with cigarette smoke at home. I must have really stunk as a child. Even my mum’s ironing smelt of fags!
Dad died at 64, Mum is hanging on in very poor health with little quality of life, she is receiving palliative care for COPD and lung cancer, although the cancer was caught very early, her lung damage is too great for her to have the treatment someone without COPD would have.

Yes. However much smokers think they don't smell they do, it stinks even in the scenario you describe.

I can smell smoke immediately if someone has had one recently and it definitely lingers in the room once they have left.

yes, you stink and so does your house. i give up places in supermarket quues when a smoker comes near because of the reek.

thanks for the extra tax and for dying earlier,but there is really no need.

My parents smoked when I was a child and when I started going to sleepovers etc I was always aware that my clothes (even pyjamas) smelt of cigarette smoke.

I can’t smell it when I come back in. OH (who is a non-smoker) has never complained or commented. I dunno. I know my car smells like smoke and I’ve made my peace with that but no-one has ever commented on the house and I have friends and family who would be honest with me. It could just be that the smell of the dogs cancels out and overrides any smoke odour that I bring back in though...

i give up places in supermarket quues when a smoker comes near because of the reek.

Are you so precious about other smells associated with being near other humans? Bus fumes, perfumes, farts, body odour, dogs, coffee breath, etc.?
Or is it just smokers you have an issue with?

Some smokers do smell bad. Others don't. It depends on what you smoke, how well scents cling to you, the way you smoke, where you smoke, and how strong the other person's sense of smell is.

Yes, definitely. My mum smokes and if she brings something to mine in a carrier bag, even the carrier bag smells strongly of stale smoke. When she pops out to have one the smell is very strong for about five minutes or so after she comes back in and don't need to be right next to her to smell it either.

Some very defensive smokers on this thread...

The fact is, if you smoke, you smell. So does your house, so does your car, so do your children.

I'm an ex smoker and find the smell of onions, garlic and fried food far more offensive

Yes it smells. When I worked in a nursery, you could smell stale smoke on the children who’s parents smoked, on their clothes and their bag with spares in. These parents were perfectly clean well presented people but the smell seems to get into everything.

DH sells bits and pieces that he's made and gets paid in cash. One of the people he does the work for is a smoker and I can smell smoke on the money he gives to DH

yes, sweetybumps, I will move away from someone reeking of perfume or body odour, both as offensive.

not precious at all. what a silly statement. If you smoke you stink.

your house will still smell of smoke even if you smoke outside as it is in your lungs and you continue breathing out the particles at a steady rate between each smoke.

Plus even outside it gets in your clothes, hair, fingers etc

Those of you who reckon people were 'surprised' when they found out you were a smoker- they were being polite. Most people probably wouldn't say 'yep of course I knew, the foul smell follows you wherever you go' are they?

No my house doesn't smell of smoke as we are non-smokers, but we had a handy man in yesterday. He was in the house for about 1.5hrs in the morning and I had to open up the windows after he left as the smell of smoke was everywhere. When DH got home he said he could smell the smoke in the house.

GandalfTheGoat yep as a teacher I can smell which children have a smoker in their house.

The thing with smoking fumes is it not just an unpleasant smell it is also a carcanegic.

Those of you who reckon people were 'surprised' when they found out you were a smoker- they were being polite. Most people probably wouldn't say 'yep of course I knew, the foul smell follows you wherever you go' are they?

It's true - the response to 'I smoke' is never going to be 'no shit Sherlock', it's always going to be a polite 'oh really' white lie, to spare your feelings.

People either know you well enough to know you smoke, or don't know you well enough, so the only appropriate response is the polite one. Only the most socially clueless would actually say 'I know'.

Yeah, the only answer to ‘I smoke’ is ‘oh really, do you?’. No one with any social awareness is going to say ‘yes I thought so, I can smell it on you’.

'no shit sherlock, you reek' would be the correct answer, but as many smokers have no sense of smell and believe in a magic curtain that means smoking in a doorway doesnt let the pong in, I think it is too difficult a concept.

Incidentally, my mum quit smoking about 2 years ago. She obviously had a relapse at the weekend as she came round to see us and she stank. My nearly 3 year old said ‘granny, why do you smell funny?’ as soon as she walked in the door.

My dp is a smoker. Only outside the house. However, I love him but he stinks! We sleep in separate rooms because of his late night fag lingering on his clothes and hair. I couldn't sleep next to that.