Today is a good day to learn.
I’ve been a daily smoker for almost 20 years now, smoking more on weekdays. It’s become my norm, and I haven’t noticed the smell of cigarettes on someone in a long time. However, I do remember finding it unpleasant as a child. I never smoke indoors, and no one has mentioned any odor to me so far. I also take good care of my hygiene and overall appearance. I’m curious—what do non-smokers think about this?
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I guarantee you smell like cigarettes. Nobody really goes up to someone, though, and says hey you smell like cigarettes.
People who smell like cigarettes stink.
I used to smoke cigarettes and was also blind to it. I’ve not smoked a cigarette in about ten years. To answer your question – Yes. The maintenance guy came earlier this week and reeked of it. He left his notebook behind. It reeks too. You and all your stuff probably smell of it. I’m sorry.
Yes. It’s rude to tell people that they smell, but smokers smell bad.
100%. You can’t not stink of cigarettes if you smoke. Like it’s not possible. You smell and so does all your stuff, your car, your clothes, your wallet, everything.
Generally, yes. There’s no hiding the lingering after effects of cigarette smoke. There are additional telltale signs of daily smokers as well.
I’m a non smoker and I hate when people reek of stale cigarettes. Just today a woman walked past me in the store and it was enough to make me hold my breath for a few extra seconds. I don’t think every smoker stinks though. I’ve seen a few people light up who I never would’ve guessed smoked. I think the odor mostly gets caught up in fabrics when people smoke indoors or in their vehicles.
>Today is a good day to learn. I’ve been a daily smoker for almost 20 years now, smoking more on weekdays. It’s become my norm, and I haven’t noticed the smell of cigarettes on someone in a long time. However, I do remember finding it unpleasant as a child. I never smoke indoors, and no one has mentioned any odor to me so far. I also take good care of my hygiene and overall appearance. I’m curious—what do non-smokers think about this?
You absolutely reek. I’m not trying to be rude, seriously, but I can smell a smoker from feet away and I’m not unusual. It’s in your hair, clothes, your car, furniture (even if you don’t smoke indoors it gets on your clothes and hair and hands and then you go sit on the couch and that’s what third-hand smoke is and it’s very noticeable) and we can smell it, yep.
I was a smoker for over 30 years and never really thought about the smell. However, after quitting, I immediately noticed how strong and unpleasant the odor of cigarettes was—even from people across the street. It was an eye-opening experience that left me feeling an unexpected sense of shame.
I hate when I order a package online and open it and instantly can tell the shipper smoked…
Yes
It’s foul
You, all your clothes, and anyone who regularly stands with you while you smoke reeks. It doesn’t matter how often you shower or do laundry, you reek. If you smoke in your car, it smells too.
My now-wife almost didn’t date me when we met because I smelled like weed. I have never smoked weed in my life, but the person I lived with at the time did. Tobacco smoke is just as bad.
Before the smoking ban came in for indoors, my parents could tell if I had been to a pub the second I’d gotten home from just the cigarette smell on me
Used to have to go home and have a shower otherwise your bedroom would reek of it the next day
I’m an ex smoker of 20 years. Yes. It stinks. It stinks from before you arrive until after you leave. Smell an ashtray for the closest equivalent as a smoker. Unfortunately, if you smoke you are noseblind to how it actually smells. If you just walk in a room and leave, the smell will linger. If you leave tabs in a bin, it’ll stink the room up. If someone sparks up 20m ahead of you, it stinks downwind. I avoid it at all costs. The most disgusting smell is when you get up close to someone and they stink like an ashtray. Nobody ever really mentioned it to me as a smoker as it’s still not really socially acceptable to call people out on it.
Yes. All smokers smell like smokers. I have never smoked but I can smell it 10 feet away.
It stinks.
I feel a little bit embarrassed how I must have smelt after nights out when I used to smoke coming back on the train.
I will go out of my way on the street to get as far away from people as i a can / over take them walking so I don’t have to be around the smell.
(I smoked for 17 years! 0% nicotine for 2 years now)
I’m a former smoker, and I assure you, you smell strongly of cigarettes. No amount of hygiene can get rid of that smell. I recently unpacked a box of clothes I found from when I was still a smoker (5 ish years ago), and even though they were clean and had been under the house this entire time, they STUNK like smoke.
Absolutely I can smell smokers. I can smell when a person on the highway in front of me is smoking. I can smell if someone smokes weed. It isn’t something that good hygiene or even colognes can cover up. I was a smoker for decades and couldn’t smell it then. Smoking regularly destroys your ability to smell a bunch of things, and it will come back after you quit. Please quit.
I definitely smell the smokers when they walk by my cubicle.
I used to do PC repair and whenever I opened a smokers PC, it smelled horrible and was all gunked up with nicotine residue and sticky yellow dust bunnies. Sometimes I would have to go into their house and that was also awful smelling.
So yeah, to the rest of us, you smell bad and you make everything around you filthy with it.
From what I’ve experienced, smokers either smell like Cigarettes or like perfume/cologne trying to mask the smell of cigarettes. And a lot of times even if you’re body/clothes don’t radiate the smell right away, it lingers in your breathe. So perfume and mints don’t really get rid off the smell it just camouflage it for the first few seconds.
Yes. The smell lingers on clothes and skin. As my mom is a chronic smoker, it’s almost comforting (not the smell of cigarettes) but that subdued lingering smell on her.
I am 100% sure you smell. Stale and like too much time indoors. And your home will smell and also your clothes. And your pillow. And your breath. Once you quit though the smell will go and your sense of smell will return. Give it a go.
Yes. Washing your clothes doesn’t even help that much. It becomes very noticeable if I happen to be on a certain side of my yard when my neighbor on that side is doing his laundry. The mixed odor of tobacco and fabric softener blowing out of the dryer vent, which is close to my yard, is quite strong and unpleasant.
One of my most embarrassing moments was when I was buying a used car. I had told the salesman that I didn’t want a smoker’s car, and he said "fine. I’ve got a great little smoke-free one to show you. Let’s have a test drive."
We both got in the car and immediately we had closed the doors I said: "I’m so sorry, Peter. This is a smoker’s car. I can’t have this"
He replied that no one had ever smoked in the car, and I laughed. "Oh Peter! It absolutely stinks of smoke! I’m sorry, but I couldn’t drive in this fug of smoke for more than a few minutes!"
Sadly, the (very pleasant) salesman sighed. He opened the ash tray and it was completely unused. There was a moment when he just looked at me and I looked at him. It was SO embarrassing for both of us. I hurriedly changed the subject. After I had bought the car (and Peter had got out of it -and a bit of fresh air had circulated through the window), the car was as fresh as a daisy.
Yes. You smell TERRIBLE and I hate being anywhere even relatively close to you because that shit carries.
Yes.
The stink is on you, your clothes, your car, your furniture, your pets, your children. Vets and groomers can tell which pets have owners that smoke. Teachers and other students know which kids have parents that smoke, or think the kid smokes. How embarrassing. It’s everywhere, and it reeks.
We can tell you were in a room after you leave.
I was a heavy-ish smoker for 13 years. You smell, whats the point in telling a smoker they smell like smoke? That’s why your friends don’t say anything about it. They more than likely assume you know.
As a lifelong non-smoker I can honestly say that ALL smokers smell of their puff of choice & yes I can tell the difference between Cigarette, Cigar & Pipe smokers.
Im a veterinarian. Not only do you smell like smoke, but so do your animals
I also want to let you know that if you are smoking near or around your kids, they and their backpacks smell of smoke. As a teacher, I know which parents smoke.
I think smokers smell horrible.
It makes me physically ill.
You mean a noticeable smell like stink? Yes. And weed smokers dank stink, and vapers attempt-at-masking-stink-that-failed stink.
Yes, I can smell it. My husband used to be a smoker and argued with me that I was making it up because he couldn’t smell it. He quit and now it’s hard for him to even visit his parents because they are smokers and their house reeks of it. My kids even shower and change as soon as they get home from visiting their grandparents because just sitting on furniture there leaves them smelling like smoke.
Yes. Always.
You absolutely smell like cigarettes lol
As a teacher of children, I can tell if a student’s parents smoke just by opening their backpack.
Didn’t notice it when I smoked ciggs. Now that I don’t, I can smell it in an elevator a smoker rode some time before me.
It’s really off putting to most people I’ve talked to about it, who were trying to be nice and tell me I smelled very “unattractive”. I didn’t believe them until I was one of them.
We smell it! We may not say anything about it, but we know you smoke.
Look, I’ll be blunt here
Smokers stink. I mean they really, really stink. It’s nasty and gross.
Their breath, their hair, their clothes, their skin, their homes, their cars, their pets. It’s everything
If I get a ride in your car, or visit your home and sit on your sofa, or spend time with you, well now I smell of it too. Thanks.
You just don’t notice it because you are used to it
And yes this applies to weed smokers too
I can smell a smoker if they walk past me. When my relatives still smoked, I could smell them even after they left the room. The smell was in their clothing, cars, and homes. I dislike the smell personally, they use to tease me when their second hand smoke made me cough… naturally I was an asthmatic child. Can’t imagine how that happened smh.