Originally posted by Pam
My daughter says she smells smoke on my clothes and things now when I come to visit. The whole time she lived here, before getting married, she never noticed it. Now she says my clothes reek and I am not even the smoker so it really affects everyone in the household.
It's so true how the smell stays with you. I don't smoke, but before I moved in with Terry I lived in an apartment building that evidently had a lot of "holes" in it. I think everyone else in the building smoked, and at the very least the guy below me did. I would go to spend the weekend by Terry and as soon as I opened my duffle bag I could smell it. It was awful! I tried to find holes to plug up with the "Great Stuff" stuff, but that never worked. And it's funny because when I walked into the apartment I couldn't smell it, but when I left and got in the fresh air I could just smell it on myself. It wasn't a bad apartment, but I was sooo glad to move out of there.

One of the guys that my boss has doing odd jobs for him must smoke like a chimney. He just reeks of it when he comes in the office. We don't allow smoking in the office, but it's so strong in his clothes that I can smell it for hours afterwards. It's just awful.

And for the record, I don't condemn anyone that smokes. It's an awful habit and I understand it's really quite hard to quit.....just don't do it around me....k? And I'm also so glad that I never smoked so I don't have the stress of quitting hanging over me. I can't imagine being that "controlled" by something.

I have a friend who is an absolute health nut. She only eats vegetarian and doesn't like to take any pills, even aspirin, because it's not natural. A TOTAL natural freak. Treats her body like a temple, works out regularly and all that good stuff....but she smokes. I asked her once how she can justify that and she said that everyone has bad things they do. She does everything else right and this is the one "bad" thing she allows herself. She even tried "natural" cigarettes once. Smelled like she was smoking weeds...that phase didn't last too long.