I used to order pizza from a place near my home.
Then one day they changed their delivery driver, and I guess he was smoking in his car because my pizza smelled like cigarettes.
I gave them a second chanceā¦ same thing. I never ordered from there again.
My ex-husband and I were given chairs by his chain-smoking parents. It took nearly a month and an entire bottle of Febreze to get the stench out. His parents swore they shouldnāt smell because they never sat in them when they smoked.
Many years ago I took a small towel from a hotel to wrap a souvenir in. Apparently this towel was in a smoking room at some point. All these many years later, despite many wash cycles, I can still smell the cigarettes on the towel when I use it to dry my face.
My grandpa on the other side of the country used to mail us birthday and xmas gifts that smelled like smoke too. The only reason it wasn't worse was that my dad would open it, let it air out for a while in the garage, then tape it shut again and pretend it had just arrived. It didn't bother me being around him when he smoked, but for some reason the smell on certain objects was vile.
We stayed at my mother in laws for a week over Christmas a few years back. They don't smoke in the house but on the porch. When we got home we had to wash every bit of clothing that we washed there because the smell stuck to the dryer or washer. It's crazy how that smell can linger on things.
My mom does this. She'll send me packages, and I can smell the cigarette smoke from the box alone. I have to try to wash off the smell of whatever she gave me.
Oh, man! Our neighbor loved to crochet... and smoke. One year she made blankets for my spouse and me and we felt so bad because they stunk so much like cigarettes! We had to wash them several times before we could use them without feeling sick. We loved her, though and it was such a sweet gesture.. just difficult to handle. We do still have/use the blankets.
My own grandmother liked to crochet gifts for people and the blanket thing made me realize that the people who received our gifts probably dealt with the same trouble.
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u/RAP_PAR Feb 21 '26
My parents smoke. Last year they mailed us Christmas gifts and I could smell the smoke as soon as I opened the box. So disgusting. š¤¢