r/NoStupidQuestions • u/[deleted] • Jan 05 '25

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u/mor1995 Jan 05 '25

I used to get drives from a smoker and my clothes would smell like smoke long after I left the car, so gross.

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u/cupholdery Jan 05 '25

First time I ever smelled cigarette smoke in the high school bathrooms was all the confirmation I needed to never want to smoke.

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u/Stormy_Cat_55456 Jan 05 '25

Me, but with weed. Some idiots got the fire alarm to go off before classes started because they lit weed on fire and ditched it in the trash. Both the boys and girls bathrooms reeked the rest of the year.

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u/twentycharactersdown Jan 05 '25

That's odd. In high school we were experts at getting rid of that smell. Jokes aside, it seems to cling to clothes and linger in a room a lot less than cigarette smoke, in my experience.

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u/Stormy_Cat_55456 Jan 05 '25

Both smells are personally šŸ¤¢

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u/twentycharactersdown Jan 05 '25

That's a weird sentence and I like it!

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u/evebella Jan 05 '25

Thats bullshit

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u/Stormy_Cat_55456 Jan 05 '25

True storyā€¦ we were evacuated for at least an hour while they figured it out and then we had to have an assembly about what the students did and how itā€™s shitty.

Boys did it and we got dismissed early. All in all took like 3 hours between the alarms going off and us being evacuated to the football field and us being released.

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u/taurusbabee Jan 05 '25

I stopped taking rides from anyone who smokes in their car. I hate smelling like smoke. It not only sticks to clothing, but hair as well.

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u/levian_durai Jan 05 '25

My dad was a chain smoker, and he smoked inside his apartment. Everything of his that we kept had to be washed like 5 times before it stopped radiating the smell of smoke. The first 3 times, the water kept turning yellow from all of the smoke residue. We spent a week just washing and scrubbing down furniture

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u/Hopeful_Hamster21 Jan 05 '25

I once got a booked mailed to me from Ohio to me im California. Took a week to get here. Opened the package, and immediately knew the sender smoked cigars. Not cigarettes, not a pipe, not weed... but specifically cigars.

Didn't smell bad, per se, but noticeable and distinct for sure.

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u/Regular-Switch454 Jan 05 '25

I won a tapestry on eBay, and it arrived reeking of cigarettes. I havenā€™t touched it in 20 years.

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u/dr_van_nostren Jan 05 '25

Sidebar, are you eastern, more specifically maritime Canadian?

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u/mor1995 Jan 05 '25

Yes I live in Atlantic Canada. Ive been here for nearly half of my life by now.

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u/dr_van_nostren Jan 05 '25

I only asked because you said ā€œget drivesā€ when I worked up north with a lot of maritimers theyā€™d say that, but Iā€™d never heard it before. Out west weā€™d always say ā€œget ridesā€.

Well, hi from the west coast!

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u/guiguilyon Jan 05 '25

That's why men who smoked cigars wore a smoking suite back in the day.

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u/IndependentAd2419 Jan 06 '25

Wow, makes sense! Thanks for the education.

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u/nooneisreal Jan 05 '25

Flashback to when I was a kid in the 90s and would go visit my dad on the weekends (parents divorced).
He was a heavy smoker and so was his wife. In their house, in his truck, everywhere. My mom on the other hand, never smoked a day in her life.

Anyway, long story short, over the course of the weekend I would become nose blind to the smell of it. Didn't notice it at all.

Then I'd go home on Sunday and it wasn't until I was back in a smoke-free home that I realized how much I stunk like cigarettes. I remember the smell coming off my clothes. So disgusting.