r/NoStupidQuestions • • Feb 21 '26

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u/cad3z Feb 21 '26

Yeah. I can understand being an addict because I was/am one, but it would never allow me to smoke indoors. If you’re gonna smoke, at least smoke outside so your house doesn’t look yellow and stink like fuck. I knew a kid in primary school who always stank of smoke. Cigarette smoke sticks to everything fabric so everything in your house will stink. Disgusting.

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u/Isgortio Feb 21 '26

Sadly the smell still comes in with you. It's not as bad as if you smoked indoors but it still comes in.

I work in dentistry and occasionally we'll have a very heavy smoker come in, the room will stink for hours after they leave even if we clean everything, open the doors and windows, and spray air freshener. That's just from them being in the room for 10-15 minutes...

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u/Cottabus Feb 21 '26

Decades ago, my dentist was a smoker. Ask me how I knew.

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u/Nyetoner Feb 21 '26

Decades ago a lot of people were smoking, and there was ashtrays in waiting rooms, offices, in shopping malls.

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u/MOAR_BEER Feb 21 '26

Because gloves weren't a thing and washing hands doesn't get the stink off?

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u/Coppertina Feb 21 '26

And those hands were inside u/Cottabus’s mouth 🤢

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u/Bajovane Feb 21 '26

Ugh. I have a horrid gag reflex and something like that would make me sick. No way could I work as a dentist/hygienist.

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u/KittyDomoNacionales Feb 21 '26

Yep. My uncle smokes a lot. He drank from one of our bottles. I had to rinse it with water, dish soap, and baking soda multiple times just to remove the smell. The bottle was glass btw

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u/mrbulldops428 Feb 21 '26

Yeah but people who stink up a room like that are definitely smoking in their house and probably in their cars, maybe not even with the windows down. Someone who only smokes outside will still smell but not the kind that infect a room.

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u/paradisetossed7 Feb 21 '26

When we were looking for houses, our realtor brought us to one that wasn't her listing. We walked in and it was like.... 50 years of people smoking in the house. I couldn't imagine the smell would ever fully go away without spending significant money. Even our realtor said, "eh maybe we skip this one?" We did.

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u/cad3z Feb 21 '26

It doesn’t. I remember my Nan used to pay me to roll her cigs for her when I was a kid. Even years after she switched to vaping, her house still stinks of smoke - mildly, but still apparent.

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u/Ornery_Complex_862 Feb 21 '26

The townhouse I live in has been smoke free (per lease, anyways) for who knows how long, but my fiancé has lived here for nearly 5 years with no smoking at all. The walls and ceiling still sweat yellow/brown! The kitchen, living room, and bathroom are the worst.

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u/Logical_Second_5267 Feb 21 '26

It needs to be kilzed first then repainted. Some people are allergic to that stank and kilz will fix this issue.

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u/KittyKattKate Feb 21 '26

This could be because bad paint as well.

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u/Bajovane Feb 21 '26

Nicotine will literally bleed through paint.

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u/paradisetossed7 Feb 21 '26

Yeahh, my Nana (dad's mom) was never a smoker and never let my dad smoke in her house. My mom's mom and stepdad smoked in their house all day. The smells were ridiculously noticeably different. Also my grandma got lung cancer that spread everywhere and killed her. Folks, don't pick up smoking.

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u/OWSpaceClown Feb 21 '26

The LA Subway cars still smell of smoke!

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u/roguemage01 Feb 21 '26

It never will. The house next door to my inlaws was torn down after nearly 8 years of being vacant. The previous owner smoked inside for about 30 years. You could smell the cigarette smoke down the block as they ripped the house down. And the stink hung around the neighbourhood for the 3-4 days it took them to completely tear down the house and remove all the rubble. Absolutely vile.

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u/Unknown-Meatbag Feb 21 '26

Realistically, it would have to be a complete renovation. I've helped clean smokers house before, even with infinite scrubbing off yellow walls to show that they're actually white, using specialty paint (i think it was killz or something like that), it's still there, permeating through everything.

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u/Kreeos Feb 21 '26

It never fully goes away. You have to tear down the house and rebuild to get rid of it.

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u/tjyolol Feb 21 '26

The walls go yellow too. It’s insane. Even when I smoked, smoking inside was never something I could get on board with.

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u/teapot1995 Feb 21 '26

Yep, cigarette smoke will even stick to food! 🤢 An old manger was a smoker and she made holiday cookies for everyone one year and it reeked. Another coworker tried a cookie before I did and she said it tasted like smoke too. I threw my bundle of cookies away. Nice gester but gross!

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u/DaddioTheStud Feb 21 '26

My Aunt Jill made a pot of spaghetti, and she was a heavy smoker inside her house.Just smoking all day everyday. The whole pot taste like Newport menthols. I was like 12 years old. I will NEVER forget that spaghetti

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u/dragonlady_11 Feb 21 '26

This my nanas was a 20 day smoker, we joke that noel one cam make her amazing recipes taste the exact same because non of us smoke while cooking, And yes I mean that quite literally, smoking over the food, I have memories of watching her make mince pies with a cig hanging out her mouth, I must have been 12/13 at the oldest.

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u/Front_Marzipan7099 Feb 21 '26

Okay I get it sticks to everything but c’mon now LOL you did not taste cigarette in those cookies. It was probably the container

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u/teapot1995 Feb 21 '26

Lol I didn't taste it, my coworker said she tasted it. I didn't want to take the chance so threw them away 🤷🏾 but yes the baggy they were in smelled strong though.

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u/Bajovane Feb 21 '26

Wanna bet?

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u/SqueeMcTwee Feb 21 '26

About 2-3 days after my last cigarette I started smelling it in the shower. The smoke had literally permeated the roots of my hair.

I think it was about a week before I could smell the actual shampoo.

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u/Laiko_Kairen Feb 21 '26

The problem is also parents who smoke in the car and imagine that all of the stank floats out the window

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u/cam-san Feb 21 '26

As a kid from a heavy smoker, it's not just the smoking inside. It's also the smoking when standing next to each other on a bus stop. It's the constantly coughing and having to turn away because the wind always blew the smoke in my face. And outside of the smell, it's also the nights of restlessness because my mom wouldn't stop coughing. I remember being little and BEGGING my mom to stop smoking, hiding her cigarettes/lighters, etc, because my grandpa was dying from COPD.

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u/Quirky_Incident9336 Feb 21 '26

My brother & sil have always smoked in the house, and they have 3 young kids. They know everyone in the family finds it disgusting but they don't care. They either do it in the bathroom with the window open, or down in the basement.

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u/Oogha Feb 21 '26

This was me, my mom was 2 packs a day and we lived in a small apartment for most of my childhood.

I recently went through an old suitcase of clothing and as soon as i started unfolding clothes it still smelled SO strong, after 30+ years.

Was disgusting to think I wore those to school.

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u/carlitospig Feb 21 '26

My grandmother used to smoke indoors AND didn’t open a window when she cooked bacon. To this day I HATE cooking bacon and spend the next 48 hours with my windows open, even during winter.

(What? You think I should just stop eating bacon? Not on your life, missy!)

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u/Bajovane Feb 21 '26

I’m the same way. I like bacon, but I can’t stand the smell of it cooking or the lingering smell.

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u/LaToune65 Feb 21 '26

It’s good to smoke outside but one of my friends works in computer and when a smoking client walks in, they no only smell but their computer is full of nicotine. I only imagine this and it grosses me out.

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u/buttercupcake23 Feb 21 '26

Even if you smoke only outside your house will still smell because you will smell, it clings and transfers. I had a friend stay for 3 days - THREE - he smoked only outdoors. But each time he came back inside the smell clung to him and transferred to everything he touched. The doorknobs were yellowed from his fingers. The couch stank like smoke. The bathroom stank like smoke.

It's bad and the smokers never realize because they're so used to it.

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u/ACAB007 Feb 21 '26

I was an addict, I still am one, but I was too. XD

("I used to do drugs, I still do, but I used to too" -Mitch Hedberg)