Smoke coming from next door house( long..)

[HoneySocks]

Not sure what to do next and would appreciate some sensible advice please... there seems to be a smell of cigarette smoke coming into my DDs bedroom from the next door terrace house, we get food smells from there too , and i know that some of the family next door do smoke.
This has been for a while now, it is not strong normally and her room is very warm (has the airing cupboard there) so it tends to hang on to smells.
I am unhappy about this but want to get my reactions in context - ,my dh thinks i am making a fuss about nothing and says he cant smell it but he likes an easy life.
Should i do one of or some of the following please?

1. speak to neighbour and find out if they are smoking in the house/ ask if they could stop as smell in DDs room
2. seal small gaps by skirting boards up with expanding foam

3.get an ioniser?

1. get a cigarette smoke detector for about £50.00 ( not sure how strong the smell would have to be for that though)?

All advice would be greatly appreciatedx

In the first instance I would seal up the gaps. I think it may be a bit unreasonable to ask them to stop smoking in their own house. And I am a person who hates smoking btw!

You can't ask your neighbours to stop smoking - its their house. We have this too in our flat - the cigarrette smells come in a lot. All you can do is minimise what it does to your DD. Get an air filter for her room. They are pricey, but would give you piece of mind. And if there are obvious gaps, then block them up.

You cannot seriously ask them to stop smoking in their own house, honestly you just can't. I don't understand how the smell could be getting in - sounds like you should go for a bit of gap-sealing or maybe replastering, You might be able to make the wall an inch or so thicker.

What good would the cigarette smoke detector be? You've already detected the smell.

Yes I would go and get some flexible filler and go mad with it round all the skirting and wall/ceiling joints, windows etc.

We have the same problem - smoke smells coming from the flat below. We're lucky it's just into our bathroom though so DD just gets to enjoy a bath to the aroma of bensons and hedges.

I think cece is right - look into sealing the gaps first.

I loathe cigarettes with a passion, but you can't ask people to stop smoking in their home. Well, you can ask, but you can't expect them to stop.

Good luck with getting it sorted. You have my sympathy; I hate the stink too.

Also you can get an air filter or go and have a look on biosis.co.uk website, they have some products that absorb toxins in the atmosphere.

great thanks all for your replies - good to have some context on the situtaion! will get air filter and filler asap.
just to explain tho,didnt mean to say really that would demand them stop smoking just to explain what was happening and hope that , you know, they would be sort of,' oh dear, sorry , hadnt realised, we will make sure we only smoke in blah blah now..' and conversation would just go that way - we get on well with the neighbours, really good people.

We have the same problem so realy sympathise with you. Not sure why but from normally only smelling the smoke from next door under the stairs, the last few days i can smell it in dd's room at night. It's really worrying me, df is going to try and fill any gaps at the weekend.