The thing is until you quit smoking yourself, you do not notice the offensive smell, as your senses are not as good in that department,and you just get used to it, I HATE the smell also, my son will smoke outside and come in and just fills the house with that awful smell, I am forever telling him to go outside as I just find it so disgusting.

I just wanted to add lexi_lover, unfortunately there is not much you can do to make them quit, they have to want it bad enough for themselves, we have offered to pay for treatment to help my son quit, but I guess he is just not ready yet, it does not help that nearly all his friends smoke and when he went to England it was even worse, nearly everyone on the cricket team were smokers.

I think it is really bad and selfish and irresponsible to smoke inside and around your children, they are passive smoking, and they have no choice, a lot of smoker's I used to know always smoked outside their house and never around the children, to me that is the only fair thing to do, They don't have a voice or a choice when they are young.