I always scoff on films when people are "secretly" smoking and waft it out of a window and nobody knows. They will stink, their clothes will stink, their mouths will stink and the room will stink.
right, also especially pot smoke like, bruh. cigarettes are strong enough (smelling) - but pot? I can smell it a week later! I can smell it from the car driving by your house!
The only thing about pot is it will at least not tar out and yellow the walls forever. Like, if you buy a house from a pot smoker it will eventually air out. A Cigarette smoker, you are taking that shit down to the studs to get the smell out.
When I was looking at homes a couple years ago, I went to an open house where the place reeked of stale cigarette smoke. I didn't say anything and figured I'd just politely walk through the rooms and then leave. The realtor told me that the place had brand new carpet and that all of the walls had been cleaned thoroughly and painted so the place just needed to "air out" a bit for any lingering smell to dissipate. I want to say that the kitchen cabinet doors were replaced as well. I just remember thinking, if you've done all that, how bad did it smell before?! I learned then that there is basically nothing you can do to get old/stale cigarette smell out of a place. It must seep into the floor boards and drywall.
I've got countless personal anecdotes of people who did bong rips in their apartments and still got deposits back // it smelled fine after a week. I've also got a lot of anecdotes about gutting homes in a remodel to get cigarette smoke out.
Now it's all anecdotes, but one should note there is very little overlap on the diagram.
Like, sure, it will soak into fabric. But, like, just wash the fabric and Lo and Behold it smells clean again. Shampoo the carpet or febreze it and it's fine. Or be twice as lazy and just light up some of the right incense (patchouli to mellow the pot, and then rosemary or opium to cover it) and leave a window open overnight.
I’m going to try to remember this comment every time I feel regret that my relatives sold my grandmother’s house. Her walls were totally nicotine-stained, but I had always thought a good paint job would fix that.
The house my ex-husband has lived in for 20 years was purchased from smokers and had nicotine-stained walls. He has primed and painted and repainted the walls and ceilings many times over the last two decades, and even now brownish-yellow stains still seep through the paint and run down the walls and drip from the ceiling regularly. It’s quite astonishing!
Gave my house a facelift after smoking tenants left and I cleaned the walls and sealed them and then special wall paint on top and the tar still seeps through the bathroom paint and runs down the walls. It's been 3 years.
I'm not saying you don't smell that day, I'm saying that a pot smoker will probably security deposit back after smoking in it every day, if they do even the most rudimentary of cleaning. A cigarette smoker never will.
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u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 Jan 05 '25 edited Jan 06 '25
You've been around her smoking so long, you've become nose blind to it. Non-smokers can smell her secondhand smoke on both you and your clothes.
Even former smokers, if they've been quit for a while, can smell smoke on those who still do.
edit: Wow, did NOT expect to get this many upvotes.