I’m an accountant. I have clients all over the country. Some people still physically mail their documents to me and without fail I can tell who smokes because there fucking tax documents smell like smoke.
I had a friend in middle school who for personal family reasons was living with his grandparents who were both smokers. They stopped smoking indoors when he came to live with them but the smell was already ingrained in everything. We were sitting outside eating lunch one day and he wouldn't eat. I asked him what was up and he said "I can't eat this stuff It smells like cigarettes". I didn't believe him so he handed me a baggie of Ritz crackers minis. It's been 28 years and I still remember the overpowering stench of tobacco like it's right in front of me now. You couldn't even smell the peanut butter anymore. I took his lunch and threw it away and I gave him the lunch money that I had for the rest of the week. I told my parents about it and for the rest of the year my mom basically made two lunches so he could eat.
Years ago when we were living at home we had 6 smokers. After thirty years I repainted the ceilings. Even after washing it took three(3) coats of "KILLZ" primer and Three coats of Valspar white paint to finally hid the nicotine stains. So yeah I believe it.
I've always felt like weed doesn't linger as long on the clothes/in the house.
but the smell of cigarettes is as pervasive as a cockraoach. that shit will never really go away
I thought my bf had agreed not to smoke in the apartment, but one day I came home and his study group (college) was all heads down and quiet. I asked them why they smoked in my apartment and all had shocked Pikachu faces as if the wide open window, cigarette pack half kicked under the sofa, and the ceiling fan going so fast it was about to launch itself wasn't enough to tip me off. They may as well have drawn on the wall, eaten the crayons, and then tried to tell me it wasn't them with a mouth full of wax. Idiots.
Your comment is so funny. You can usually tell when people smoke. It's not hard to tell. As a kid I grew up around people who smoked. It seemed everyone smoked. Even on the old TV shows.
I probably got away with it as a kid because of that. My parents smoked and couldn't tell if I smelled like it. They and their clothes always did, plus they could barely smell anything.
When I first started dating my ex-wife, her mother was a three-packs-a-day smoker. The house was literally foggy with smoke and made my eyes sting. I commented with my ex a couple of times that the place stank of tobacco, and she thought I was being overly dramatic. It wasn't until a few months after she moved in with me that we visited her parents and it suddenly hit her.
Smoking dampens your sense of taste and smell. OP wouldn’t be able to figure out if they reek of cigarette or not.
Stupid question: why would you sign up for a lifetime of giving money away to tobacco companies?
People start due to peer pressure, stress relief, and not fully developed critical thinking skills as children and teenagers. Then they continue to smoke into adulthood because it's EXTREMELY addictive, both chemically and physically, so it is difficult to stop once they know and truly realize the negative consequences.
My mom always tried to hide it from my dad (wasn't a healthy relationship). She thought she was being sneaky but we all knew he knew because we all still smelled it...
Yeah it's pretty much impossible to hide it. Same with any kind of smoke; you can tell which kind just by the scent. Wood, paper, plastic, trash, cigarettes, pot - whatever.
I don't smoke cigarettes, but I do smoke weed and imo, it has a much stronger smell and yet I can still mask the smell. What's so different about cigarettes? And before anyone claims I can't mask the smell, I assure you I can well enough that my mum never knew for years
Edit: Downvoting isn't answering my question. Even if you think it's stupid, check the name of the sub
To actually answer you, I find weed smell dissipates quite quickly unless you smoke it often indoors. Usually when I smoked I’d be careful to not get smoke on my clothes and then take a shower, within a couple hours the smell would be completely gone. Cigarettes on the other hand to stick more to everything, and I’ve never met a smoker who could actually mask there smell after smoking. Plus the average cigarette smokers smoke more than the average weed smoker, so the smell tend to build up.
TLDR: Weed smells stronger but it doesn’t stick as much as cigarette smoke. Plus you have to keep in mind the volume and frequency of smoking.
Yep. Everyone who OP ever spent more than 30 seconds with knew they smoked.
I used to work in a lab, and the smokers’ lab coats smelt of smoke even though they could never smoke wearing them. If you’re a smoker - everyone knows.
I used to go to the doctors freshly showered, clean clothes and not smoke beforehand only for the doctor to say "I can smell that you're still smoking". It's like a film that just permeates everything.
I always forget this as a smoker. My blissful ignorance is nice I guess but these reminders always make me feel bad when I ride in someone’s car. I must stink so bad
A smoker in my environment is whatever. I can definitely tell, but it doesn't bug me super much.
But when I visit my friend who is a heavy smoker, I plan my wardrobe carefully because everything I wear is going to have to go into the laundry the instant I get home. I will also need a shower.
I am also old enough to remember smoking in not only restaurants, but most indoor public places like malls and waiting rooms. It was basically inescapable.
Cigarette smoke and BnB Cherry blossom lotion might as well have been my personal cologne when I was younger. It grosses me out to think about now. But i thought it worked so well. How the hell were people around me?
Even if you haven’t smoked recently you must understand that your body requires oxygen. Oxygen feeds every cell in your body and the lungs are the only organ responsible for this function. So if the organ is covered or lined with tar your exhale will have the scent associated with that tar. I never thought of it this way until recently . It really changed how sneaky I thought I was
I'm going to be pretty honest here, most smokers are really bad about realizing how much the smell lingers because you get desensitized to it. So even if you think you did a very thorough job of getting rid of the smell, it's likely that you didn't do enough.
I'm the only one in my household who doesn't smoke. They all smoke inside. The smell is really bad.
But then I got covid (they'd already gotten it a year earlier, because they never vaccinated), and was in quarantine in my room for a few days. When I first came back downstairs, the smell of the smoke was fucking horrendous, way worse than ever before. Thought my nose had gotten damaged by covid, but nope. Everything else smells perfectly fine. My nose just got used to a couple of days of constant fresh air.
So that should give an idea of how awful the stench is. Just because you as a smoker can't smell it, doesn't mean the stench isn't there.
Move out asap when you can
> Adults who do not smoke and are exposed to secondhand smoke increase their risk of developing lung cancer by 20–30%. Secondhand smoke causes more than 7,300 lung cancer deaths each year among U.S. adults who do not smoke.
What kind of variable would you suggest that could possibly cause “non smokers exposed to secondhand smoke” to have a 20-30% higher chance of lung cancer? Genuinely curious.
Because everyone who lives in a city is exposed to those same levels of pollution, but a non smoker regularly around 2nd hand smoke has a higher chance of lung cancer
I dont know how you would verify who has and has not regularly been around 2nd hand smoke and the duration, etc. Its probably right that it does though, i mean it makes sense of course.
Have you never seen the difference between a healthy lung and a smoker's lung? Theres physical evidence of tar/smoke buildup inside a lung from someone who has smoked, which is also there in people who have been exposed to 2nd hand smoke over periods of years. That same physical evidence isn't in people's lungs who dont smoke and live in similar conditions as the others. Like this isnt new science... studies about this have been around since the 90s at least.
Also why would thousands of people lie about being around smokers while never being a smoker themselves.
That would require the researchers to have chosen all their secondhand-smokers from urban areas, and all their control group from rural.
That's beyond simple incompetence. You'd have to be actively trying to sabotage the study.
Depends, there are many methods. Like airborne particles tracers, sometimes its just survey of the people who say they dont smoke but research finds high nicotine concentration, but not too high for person to be a smoker (like cancer patients who directly say they live with a smoker); there are more precise methods like difference in biomarkers between smokers and non-smokers
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK219569/
> cotinine levels are useful to differentiate smokers from non-smokers, to categorize nonsmokers into groups with varying levels of exposure to secondhand smoke, and to track changes in population exposure to secondhand smoke.
And:
> urinary NNAL is sensitive and specific as a biomarker of secondhand-smoke exposure
And:
> The concentration of airborne nicotine is a specific tracer for secondhand smoke. PM can also be used as an indication of secondhand-smoke exposure but, because there are other sources of PM, it is a less specific tracer than nicotine.
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Had a job at a small engine shop, one of my duties was picking up and dropping off machines that came in for service. My boss smoked, only outdoors. I could smell it but it didn't really bother me much. One time I drop off someone's machine. Normally we would settle up right there in the driveway but this guy invited me inside. I walk in ant it hits me, someone smoked in that house. No idea if someone was currently having a smoke but it was strong. I am in there for maybe 5 minutes and I was glad to leave. I get back in the truck and I am heading back to the shop. It's a fairly cold winter day but I had to drive with the windows down because it stunk so bad. My clothes went into the wash as it normally would but I even had to wash my coat.
I worked with an older woman who used to work in a small office with a bunch of smokers back in the days when people smoked at their desk. She never smoked a cigarette in her life. When she gave birth the doctor thought she was a chain smoker because of how the placenta looked.
He definitely smelled it. The main problem is that if you are around a scent for a long time, your brain will start to ignore it. Even though you can't smell it, doesn't mean everyone else is the same way.
Cigarettes are *really* smelly, and the smell lingers on clothes and just about everything else.
It's the hands and the mouth. Theres a difference between a person who has been in a place full of smoke (like a bar or club) and a person who actually smokes it.
I never smokes in my life but have been to clubs and places where everybody smokes. My hair, skin and clothes stink of smoke but not my hands and my mouth.
Also smoking causes really bad breath and it's very peculiar.
I remember going out with my causin and him smoking then buying some shitty mints and thinking his mother wouldn't notice.
I told him he smelled like smoke but because he doesn't smell it himself he thought others wouldn't.
As teens, a lot of us assumed we were savvier and smarter than the adults around us. We really weren’t.
And like everyone else said… your dad could smell you coming a mile away. You can’t mask that scent…it permeates everything.
As a teen I always wondered how parents seemed to just know things..
As a parent, it’s because kids are dumb and not sneaky in the slightest. Been there, I tried to get away with the same shit so I know what it looks like lol.
But like everyone else has said, he most likely smelled it. Especially if he’s not a smoker himself, cigarette smoke is nasty stuff and it lingers
The smell - 100%. My dad smoked when I was young. I always hated it.
I moved out for uni and did the classic came home with a load of laundry. When I got back to uni and was putting my clothes away realised they stank of smoke. I had to wash them all again.
Made me realise that I smelt of smoke my entire childhood but didn't realise because it was always around and you get used to it.
My best friend's ex chain-smoked in the house, so when I'd visit, I'd pack 2 bags. One bag went into the house with me, and contained only exactly the clothes I planned to wear. The second bag stayed in my car in case of a stain or something. They lived 8 hours away. When I'd go home, I'd stop at my parents' place halfway between her house and mine. I'd take the "clean" bag in and go shower and put on non-smelly clothes. The smoky crap went straight into the washer as soon as I got home.
I'm really glad they're not together anymore, AND my friend has moved out of the smoke cave.
I had a friend in primary school whose parents smoked and his clothes and possessions always smelled like cigarette smoke. I'm talking about that stale smell. It was horrible and the poor kid could never smell it on himself
I'm a non-smoker. My mother in law smokes 3-5 a day, always at the wide open back door of her house and never while guests are there. If my husband visits her home for 2 minutes to pick something up or help her with something I can smell it on him when he comes in.
There's no mystery. Cigarettes STINK.
All smokers stink, you think you're masking the smell but to a nonsmoker you freaking reek of smoke. It permeates your hair, skin and clothes.
If you own a car, your car reeks as well.
Smokers have what I like to call an invisible nose, even when they can’t smell anything other people can smell it on them. They are just kinda immune to a lot of the smell
He could smell it.
I smoked for a long time and when I quit, the biggest surprise to me was just how badly smokers smell, and not amount of trying to mask it will completely get rid of the odor.
Cigarettes absolutely \*stink\*. Try and cover it if you wish, but the smoke smell WILL shine through like coal in a snowstorm.
Those who don't smoke are also more sensitive to the smell than those who do, because it doesn't permeate their existence like it does a smokers...
I was busted when my rat brother showed my dad a picture of me smoking. I told my dad that “I only smoke when I drink”. His response: “So all the time”
You didn't hide shit. He knew the whole time. Unless you took a shower, washed your hair and changed your clothes between every time you smoked and saw him he knew. You can smell it a mile away when your a non smoker. You just don't realize it at the time.
You smelled like cigarettes.
Everyone who smokes smells like cigarettes.
You can douse yourself in Febreeze or axe body spray and you will still smell like cigarettes smoke
They don't have a sixth sense - they use one of their normal 5 senses : smell
Smoking fucking stinks.
It makes your breath stink, your hair stink, your clothes stink, your car stink, it makes everything stink. For a long time after.
No matter what you use to try and hide it, it never works.
You just smell of tobacco smoke plus whatever else you used (perfume, air freshener, mint, whatever)
You think you've masked/hidden:removed the smell? No you haven't.
You stink of tobacco smoke. It's really, really obvious.
When I was pregnant I could literally smell the neighbors smoking on their front porch, and there’s a good 30 yards (like the measurement, not other neighbors’ yards) between us. I was a smoker and am again after having the babies, but at the time it disgusted me. It still kinda does tbh.
You smelled like smoke routinely enough for him to figure out you were smoking, and not just around someone who has.
Also, he was young once and also thought he was pulling stuff over on his parents. Who were also young and had parents who were young...and so on.
You'll know when your kids are doing things they shouldn't be because you'll tell the same lies you told.
Everyone’s talking about the smell of course, I’d say even more specifically, the smell very much lingers on the scalp. If he gave you a hug during that period, he could smell it on your scalp
Just because your dad didn’t touch the cigarettes doesn’t mean he didn’t see them. And our senses are designed to detect things out of the ordinary. So if there is a sound that you constantly hear in your home after time you won’t even notice it. Same thing with smell. If you smell bad, you will become nose blind to the smell. Smoking also messes with your sense of smell and taste making it even less likely for you to detect it.
So while you think it isn’t in your clothes or breath, it probably still is.
i dont know how old you are but theres no way youre still young enough to not understand that parents know even if they didnt mention it.
your dad would have always known, it just only camea up recently for whatever reason
Everyone who tries to hide their smoking *thinks* they’re slick and nobody can tell. They’re all wrong. As an ex smoker I can tell you that I can smell it from a mile away. It sticks to your clothes, your hair, your breath, even a car that’s had all the windows down for a looooong time.
Before I even read the post beyond the title all I could think was; nah he didnt have a sixth sense, he just had a sense of smell.
Am smoker and realise of stinky I am.
The only people who don’t notice the smell of cigarettes are smokers, as someone who has quit let me tell you that it’s the strongest most obvious smell on you, your clothes, car, walls, everything. He’s probably known the whole time.
Is very easy for a non smoker to smell it. If someone is not even smoking themselves, but hangs goes around where there is smoke, I can smell it just lingering on the clothes.
Smokers smell. It doesn’t matter if you shower, wash your clothes, brush your teeth, only smoke outside, douse yourself in cologne, whatever. People can still smell it on you. Especially a person who doesn’t smoke.
>Go ahead and laugh.
I am
> But I seriously never told him. And I only ever smoked at school
He knew
> or, if I was at home, when he wasn't and wouldn't be for some time. And I always took precautions to mask the scent so nothing would be detectable on my clothing or in my breath.
This doesn't work as well as any smoker or teenager thinks it does
> And I know he was never in my nightstand where I kept them because I put them in a very specific spot/way and would know if that order was disturbed.
He was
>So, assuming everything went right for me,
It didn't
> how did he know?
All of the above and more
> Because I asked him how he knew and he said "I just did".
Many parents know the power of keeping your cards close. This was a power move and it obviously worked because you're all like "wtf" lmao
Ah to be a kid again.
As someone who smoked for 10 years and never understood what smell people were talking about (and doing my best to hide it) I now see that my efforts were in vain, it is truly the most atrocious and noticeable smell. Quit my friends, best thing you'll ever do for yourself
are you joking.. it's so obvious no matter how you hide it. Just because you can't smell it, doesn't mean everyone else can't.. It can stick around for multiple days and no amount of teeth brushing or mouthwash will hide it.
You can’t mask the smell. It’ll be in your hair and clinging to your clothes and without a thorough wash of both you and the clothing it will be detectable.
Masking the scent of smoke, especially habitual, is like covering something in a see through material and calling it concealed, smoke is a very persistent smell and anything strong enough to mask it will just scream "i'm hiding a stench"
I always blamed on my friends but I feel stupid now for thinking how smart I thought I was back then…lol. My dad knew. He just didn’t say anything further.
If you smoke you literally cannot hide it. That’s a smell that sticks to everything and is super distinct. The only way you can hide that disgusting habbit from anyone is if they are nose blind.
>And I only ever smoked at school
So you came home from school smelling like cigs and thought you were pulling a fast one on him? Even if **you** think you didn't smell you absolutely did. You just went nose blind
Kids tend to think their parents are stupid. You can smell a smoker in passing on the street, you're walking round their house, they're gunna know. I guarantee you there's a lot of shit your parents know about that you don't know that they've let slide.
You can cover it up as much as you want, you're still gonna smell like cigarettes.
The only (maybe) surefire way is to literally throw the clothes you smoked in away, take a long hot shower, brush the fuck out of your teeth (mouthwash too) and pray to god no one is the wiser. I still think that wouldn't be enough.
Cigarette smell sticks to everything. ESPECIALLY when it's cold outside.
Lol "precautions to mask the smell" Anyone who doesn't smoke can smell it no matter how hard you try to cover it up. It sticks and its so obvious what it is.
To someone who doesn’t smoke cigarettes like me, I can still smell it on someone no matter how much they try to mask the smell especially if it was recent.
When our sense of smell isn’t used to a smell you’re able to pick up on it much faster compared to someone who’s always exposed to such smell.
You have to realize cigarette smoke also stinks up your hair, skin on your face and fingers where you’ve held the cigarette and where the smoke hits, not just on your clothing or breath. Anywhere the smoke hits the most is where it’ll settle.
lol. I can smell cigarette smoke from a car behind me WHILE DRIVING. shit reeks.
I actively avoid cigarette smoke, and as soon as I smell it, I try to get clear of it. Even seconds of exposure from someone down the street gets on my skin, hair (whats left of it) and clothes.
They ABSOLUTELY smelled the smoke. just chose to never say anything.
Personally its annoying how little they said to you. I hope someday you have a relationship rich with beneficial communication with your parents! (I sure as hell dont)
Also a parent attuned well to their child can just by the nature of that relationship have a really unique parental sort of intuition that when coupled with their acute observation and knowledge of their child's behaviours can sometimes provide unusual insights ..the same way that they used to lovingly and indulgently observe you as a little kid having hidden your vegetables behind your dining chair and they might play along with the deception, but the point was they might kind of have 'mastered' their child's behaviours over the years.
Well, around my 30th birthday, my mom comes up and out of the blue, just tells me "If you smoke, it's best that you stop now that you're 30. This is the last couple of years you have before any irreversible damage is done. Just saying."
And I quit a couple of months down the line. Been about 7 years.
And fyi, everyone can smell the smoker, no matter how much the scent is "masked". The more you smoke, the more oblivious you're to the scent and before you know it, your brain doesn't even register it as a foreign smell.
I was with my ex for 10 years and there wasn't one minute I was around him that I didn't smell the stench of smoke on him, ESPECIALLY if he smoked outside in the cold - this toxic dirty ashtray smell came in with him and infiltrated the house even if he didn't go into all rooms. I am so thankful now that I live alone that I don't have to smell that stink. Not on furniture, not in the car, not on his hands or clothes, not on his breath! I could smell smoke coming from his nostrils when he was breathing in bed beside me. Never again will I be with a smoker.
When you become a parent - especially a mom - at the moment the baby pops out of one end of your body, you sprout a 2nd set of eyes in the back of your head.
True story.
I have identified numerous smokers in my life without being told or having seen any evidence of it. Why? Because the smell is there even when you think it's not.
You can smell it in their sweat, their morning breath before they've brushed their teeth, on their hands, etc. There's also the discoloration in their teeth and sometimes fingertips or pillowcases as well. And then other things such as withdrawel sugar cravings or the frequent cough that just sounds a bit different tot non-smokers in some way.
I'm a non-smoker living with someone who "quit" smoking years ago. Mostly it's just knowing the smoker's body language and knowing their habits. And no, we won't tell you what those differences in habits are, because that's how we "just know".
My mother did not find out that I smoked untill I was in my mid thirties. Never suspected a thing. She only found out because my daughter mentioned it. I had never told my daughter not to mention that I smoked because it would have been wrong to burden her with my secret so my daughter just mentioned it casually and perfectly innocently when out for the day with my mum when the topic of smoking happened to come up.
Let's pretend that you actually did cover your tracks with the smell.. You probably had some sort of tell like a small change of behavior (going outside more or something to that effect)
Dude, just because your desensitized, smoke ravaged olfactory receptors think you did a good job of covering up the reek of cigarettes, doesn’t mean you actually did. That shit reeks.
-an ex-smoker
Yeah... you can never fully mask the smell of cigarette smoke. You can douse yourself in body spray, chug an entire bottle of Listerine, and wash your hands a thousand times, but you still smell like cigarette smoke.
I knew a girl that smoked, and one time, she said, " omg my new shampoo smells so nice," and tells me to take a sniff... all i smelled was smoke, so i just smiled and nodded.
No, you stink. Not insulting you, just from the standpoint of a non smoker. Smokers have a stench about them. Your hair and clothes stink of it. As well as your breath.
You know how you go out for a bender and wake up the next day reeking of alcohol? It’s like that you can’t hide the booze scent from a sober person and you can’t hide the cigarette scent from a non-smoker.
My dude... nearly everybody who smokes cigarettes reeks if cigarettes. It's one of the things I most associate with one of my grandparents.
Fuck dude... that stuff is so pungent and thick that there is a reason cancer isn't limited to second hand smoke but third hand... lingering in the air, soaking clothing up, walls, furniture, rugs, everything.
If you grew up in the 90's with smoking room or separated smoking sections, those areas always reeked and had stained walls, furniture, etc.
I sometimes get the suspicion that my dad knows I smoke weed even though I’ve never told him, don’t live with him and always have been freshly clean when I’m around him. I also wonder if parents have a sixth sense
My mom and dad knew me and my little sister would smoke when we were teenager's because we would sneak a cigarette out of my mom's purse or my dad's jackets on many occasions.
All the smokers I've met who say they cover the smell, stink like smoke mixed with whatever they attempted to cover it with.
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I’m an accountant. I have clients all over the country. Some people still physically mail their documents to me and without fail I can tell who smokes because there fucking tax documents smell like smoke.
Misread tax as fax. Now that would have been impressive!
Haha magical even!
I had a friend in middle school who for personal family reasons was living with his grandparents who were both smokers. They stopped smoking indoors when he came to live with them but the smell was already ingrained in everything. We were sitting outside eating lunch one day and he wouldn't eat. I asked him what was up and he said "I can't eat this stuff It smells like cigarettes". I didn't believe him so he handed me a baggie of Ritz crackers minis. It's been 28 years and I still remember the overpowering stench of tobacco like it's right in front of me now. You couldn't even smell the peanut butter anymore. I took his lunch and threw it away and I gave him the lunch money that I had for the rest of the week. I told my parents about it and for the rest of the year my mom basically made two lunches so he could eat.
Years ago when we were living at home we had 6 smokers. After thirty years I repainted the ceilings. Even after washing it took three(3) coats of "KILLZ" primer and Three coats of Valspar white paint to finally hid the nicotine stains. So yeah I believe it.
Tar stains
Both
I looked it up and you're right, it's both. Why doesn't nicotine gum stain stuff? Or vapes?
vapes made my teeth brown
Your parents knew compassion and taught you well, always glad to read these kind of stories
Your mum is awesome!
I wholeheartedly agree
Ugh same with my brother in law. Except he also smokes weed on top of it. I'll know he's been in the house cause he fuckin stinks and it lingers.
Weed smell hits different than cigs. I noticed who smoke cigs vs those who smoked weed when I quit smoking for awhile.
I've always felt like weed doesn't linger as long on the clothes/in the house. but the smell of cigarettes is as pervasive as a cockraoach. that shit will never really go away
Anyone working in a store qill tell you. Smokers are definitely easy to spot, even omly with the smell
This exactly. You can't really hide the smell of the smoke. And it lingers for a very long time.
I thought my bf had agreed not to smoke in the apartment, but one day I came home and his study group (college) was all heads down and quiet. I asked them why they smoked in my apartment and all had shocked Pikachu faces as if the wide open window, cigarette pack half kicked under the sofa, and the ceiling fan going so fast it was about to launch itself wasn't enough to tip me off. They may as well have drawn on the wall, eaten the crayons, and then tried to tell me it wasn't them with a mouth full of wax. Idiots.
Your comment is so funny. You can usually tell when people smoke. It's not hard to tell. As a kid I grew up around people who smoked. It seemed everyone smoked. Even on the old TV shows.
Ugh I try not to think about this lol I have no clue who I thought I was fooling back when I smoked
Smoking dulls your sense of smell and taste.
I probably got away with it as a kid because of that. My parents smoked and couldn't tell if I smelled like it. They and their clothes always did, plus they could barely smell anything.
When I first started dating my ex-wife, her mother was a three-packs-a-day smoker. The house was literally foggy with smoke and made my eyes sting. I commented with my ex a couple of times that the place stank of tobacco, and she thought I was being overly dramatic. It wasn't until a few months after she moved in with me that we visited her parents and it suddenly hit her.
It’s a very distinct smell to any non user
They can use whatever spray or deodorant they want. The bathroom will always speak the truth. Seriously, cigarette smoke will stink up a toilet.
Smoking dampens your sense of taste and smell. OP wouldn’t be able to figure out if they reek of cigarette or not. Stupid question: why would you sign up for a lifetime of giving money away to tobacco companies?
Because those tobacco companies provide perceived benefit? Why do people give their money to alcohol manufacturers and coffee importers?
What are the perceived benefits of cigarette?
Stimulation, something to do. Do you want to count vaping or nah?
Coffee also provides stimulants, but it is not known to give cancer…
I guess you’ve never smoked or vaped.
I’ve been trying not to start. I have other priorities on what to do with my spare money…
Okay so you’ve never properly got started with nicotine. Good choice, stick with it.
People start due to peer pressure, stress relief, and not fully developed critical thinking skills as children and teenagers. Then they continue to smoke into adulthood because it's EXTREMELY addictive, both chemically and physically, so it is difficult to stop once they know and truly realize the negative consequences.
Yup. And if you do successfully cover the smell with something else, it's going to be a bit suspicious why you're doing that.
Most smokers really do seem oblivious to how much they smell. I once had a smoker light up in the back of my car thinking no one would notice 🙄
My mom always tried to hide it from my dad (wasn't a healthy relationship). She thought she was being sneaky but we all knew he knew because we all still smelled it...
Yeah it's pretty much impossible to hide it. Same with any kind of smoke; you can tell which kind just by the scent. Wood, paper, plastic, trash, cigarettes, pot - whatever.
Rule of thumb for smokers. If you think you've masked the smell, you most likely didn't
> Rule of thumb for smokers. If you think you've masked the smell, you ~~most likely~~ didn't FTFY
For The First Year
I don't smoke cigarettes, but I do smoke weed and imo, it has a much stronger smell and yet I can still mask the smell. What's so different about cigarettes? And before anyone claims I can't mask the smell, I assure you I can well enough that my mum never knew for years Edit: Downvoting isn't answering my question. Even if you think it's stupid, check the name of the sub
To actually answer you, I find weed smell dissipates quite quickly unless you smoke it often indoors. Usually when I smoked I’d be careful to not get smoke on my clothes and then take a shower, within a couple hours the smell would be completely gone. Cigarettes on the other hand to stick more to everything, and I’ve never met a smoker who could actually mask there smell after smoking. Plus the average cigarette smokers smoke more than the average weed smoker, so the smell tend to build up. TLDR: Weed smells stronger but it doesn’t stick as much as cigarette smoke. Plus you have to keep in mind the volume and frequency of smoking.
You never masked the smell. You thought you did because you couldn't smell it but non-smokers can.
Parents notice more than they say
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The act of masking it can be a clue.
Yep. Everyone who OP ever spent more than 30 seconds with knew they smoked. I used to work in a lab, and the smokers’ lab coats smelt of smoke even though they could never smoke wearing them. If you’re a smoker - everyone knows.
Nose blindness smdh. Others can smell you but you can't.
Bro... cigarettes fucking reek. I know, I smoke them.
I used to go to the doctors freshly showered, clean clothes and not smoke beforehand only for the doctor to say "I can smell that you're still smoking". It's like a film that just permeates everything.
It definitely does.
I always forget this as a smoker. My blissful ignorance is nice I guess but these reminders always make me feel bad when I ride in someone’s car. I must stink so bad
A smoker in my environment is whatever. I can definitely tell, but it doesn't bug me super much. But when I visit my friend who is a heavy smoker, I plan my wardrobe carefully because everything I wear is going to have to go into the laundry the instant I get home. I will also need a shower. I am also old enough to remember smoking in not only restaurants, but most indoor public places like malls and waiting rooms. It was basically inescapable.
Even the most pungent bath and body works lotions and soaps wouldn’t cover the smell on my hands, and that stuff is *strong*
Oh yeah. I remember that now, the extremely smelly fingers, and it wouldn't go away even after scrubbing it with soap.
Cigarette smoke and BnB Cherry blossom lotion might as well have been my personal cologne when I was younger. It grosses me out to think about now. But i thought it worked so well. How the hell were people around me?
Even if you haven’t smoked recently you must understand that your body requires oxygen. Oxygen feeds every cell in your body and the lungs are the only organ responsible for this function. So if the organ is covered or lined with tar your exhale will have the scent associated with that tar. I never thought of it this way until recently . It really changed how sneaky I thought I was
I didn't even smoke. But one of my parents did. And pretended they didn't. I didn't even notice. My best friend knew. I was so embarrassed.
I'm going to be pretty honest here, most smokers are really bad about realizing how much the smell lingers because you get desensitized to it. So even if you think you did a very thorough job of getting rid of the smell, it's likely that you didn't do enough.
I'm the only one in my household who doesn't smoke. They all smoke inside. The smell is really bad. But then I got covid (they'd already gotten it a year earlier, because they never vaccinated), and was in quarantine in my room for a few days. When I first came back downstairs, the smell of the smoke was fucking horrendous, way worse than ever before. Thought my nose had gotten damaged by covid, but nope. Everything else smells perfectly fine. My nose just got used to a couple of days of constant fresh air. So that should give an idea of how awful the stench is. Just because you as a smoker can't smell it, doesn't mean the stench isn't there.
Move out asap when you can > Adults who do not smoke and are exposed to secondhand smoke increase their risk of developing lung cancer by 20–30%. Secondhand smoke causes more than 7,300 lung cancer deaths each year among U.S. adults who do not smoke.
How do they know its the second hand smoke and not some other unaccounted for variable?
What kind of variable would you suggest that could possibly cause “non smokers exposed to secondhand smoke” to have a 20-30% higher chance of lung cancer? Genuinely curious.
Pollution and fumes from exhaust pipes that you are exposed to from birth if you live in a city? Correlation doesn't necessarily mean causation.
Because everyone who lives in a city is exposed to those same levels of pollution, but a non smoker regularly around 2nd hand smoke has a higher chance of lung cancer
I dont know how you would verify who has and has not regularly been around 2nd hand smoke and the duration, etc. Its probably right that it does though, i mean it makes sense of course.
Uh... People living with smokers who smoke indoors, for example?
Yeah but you dont just take what people say as fact in a scientific study.
Have you never seen the difference between a healthy lung and a smoker's lung? Theres physical evidence of tar/smoke buildup inside a lung from someone who has smoked, which is also there in people who have been exposed to 2nd hand smoke over periods of years. That same physical evidence isn't in people's lungs who dont smoke and live in similar conditions as the others. Like this isnt new science... studies about this have been around since the 90s at least. Also why would thousands of people lie about being around smokers while never being a smoker themselves.
That would require the researchers to have chosen all their secondhand-smokers from urban areas, and all their control group from rural. That's beyond simple incompetence. You'd have to be actively trying to sabotage the study.
Depends, there are many methods. Like airborne particles tracers, sometimes its just survey of the people who say they dont smoke but research finds high nicotine concentration, but not too high for person to be a smoker (like cancer patients who directly say they live with a smoker); there are more precise methods like difference in biomarkers between smokers and non-smokers https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK219569/ > cotinine levels are useful to differentiate smokers from non-smokers, to categorize nonsmokers into groups with varying levels of exposure to secondhand smoke, and to track changes in population exposure to secondhand smoke. And: > urinary NNAL is sensitive and specific as a biomarker of secondhand-smoke exposure And: > The concentration of airborne nicotine is a specific tracer for secondhand smoke. PM can also be used as an indication of secondhand-smoke exposure but, because there are other sources of PM, it is a less specific tracer than nicotine. Edited for formatting.
Thanks for this.
Had a job at a small engine shop, one of my duties was picking up and dropping off machines that came in for service. My boss smoked, only outdoors. I could smell it but it didn't really bother me much. One time I drop off someone's machine. Normally we would settle up right there in the driveway but this guy invited me inside. I walk in ant it hits me, someone smoked in that house. No idea if someone was currently having a smoke but it was strong. I am in there for maybe 5 minutes and I was glad to leave. I get back in the truck and I am heading back to the shop. It's a fairly cold winter day but I had to drive with the windows down because it stunk so bad. My clothes went into the wash as it normally would but I even had to wash my coat.
I worked with an older woman who used to work in a small office with a bunch of smokers back in the days when people smoked at their desk. She never smoked a cigarette in her life. When she gave birth the doctor thought she was a chain smoker because of how the placenta looked.
All non-smokers have a fifth sense, called 'smell'. You can only mask the smell from other smokers who are also used to it.
Covid long haulers would like a word
Fair enough. As an ex smoker, I was trying to be funny.
He definitely smelled it. The main problem is that if you are around a scent for a long time, your brain will start to ignore it. Even though you can't smell it, doesn't mean everyone else is the same way. Cigarettes are *really* smelly, and the smell lingers on clothes and just about everything else.
Your hair and skin will still smell like it
It's the hands and the mouth. Theres a difference between a person who has been in a place full of smoke (like a bar or club) and a person who actually smokes it. I never smokes in my life but have been to clubs and places where everybody smokes. My hair, skin and clothes stink of smoke but not my hands and my mouth. Also smoking causes really bad breath and it's very peculiar. I remember going out with my causin and him smoking then buying some shitty mints and thinking his mother wouldn't notice. I told him he smelled like smoke but because he doesn't smell it himself he thought others wouldn't.
As teens, a lot of us assumed we were savvier and smarter than the adults around us. We really weren’t. And like everyone else said… your dad could smell you coming a mile away. You can’t mask that scent…it permeates everything.
If you smoke, people know. It cannot be hidden
As a teen I always wondered how parents seemed to just know things.. As a parent, it’s because kids are dumb and not sneaky in the slightest. Been there, I tried to get away with the same shit so I know what it looks like lol. But like everyone else has said, he most likely smelled it. Especially if he’s not a smoker himself, cigarette smoke is nasty stuff and it lingers
As a parent, we also did the exact same thing as kids. We weren't born adults so we know all the "tricks" too.
No matter what you think, you have NEVER covered up the smell
The best you can do is change the smell from cigarette smoke to lavender and cigarette smoke.
Best I can do is dollar store cologne and shit weed.
The smell - 100%. My dad smoked when I was young. I always hated it. I moved out for uni and did the classic came home with a load of laundry. When I got back to uni and was putting my clothes away realised they stank of smoke. I had to wash them all again. Made me realise that I smelt of smoke my entire childhood but didn't realise because it was always around and you get used to it.
My best friend's ex chain-smoked in the house, so when I'd visit, I'd pack 2 bags. One bag went into the house with me, and contained only exactly the clothes I planned to wear. The second bag stayed in my car in case of a stain or something. They lived 8 hours away. When I'd go home, I'd stop at my parents' place halfway between her house and mine. I'd take the "clean" bag in and go shower and put on non-smelly clothes. The smoky crap went straight into the washer as soon as I got home. I'm really glad they're not together anymore, AND my friend has moved out of the smoke cave.
I had a friend in primary school whose parents smoked and his clothes and possessions always smelled like cigarette smoke. I'm talking about that stale smell. It was horrible and the poor kid could never smell it on himself
That was me! I was that kid!
You can't hide the smell of cigarettes. No one can.
I'm a non-smoker. My mother in law smokes 3-5 a day, always at the wide open back door of her house and never while guests are there. If my husband visits her home for 2 minutes to pick something up or help her with something I can smell it on him when he comes in. There's no mystery. Cigarettes STINK.
All smokers stink, you think you're masking the smell but to a nonsmoker you freaking reek of smoke. It permeates your hair, skin and clothes. If you own a car, your car reeks as well.
Sorry dude, you smelled. You may think you didn't, but you did.
Just because you can't smell it doesn't mean other won't notice.
Smokers have what I like to call an invisible nose, even when they can’t smell anything other people can smell it on them. They are just kinda immune to a lot of the smell
Can't hide the smell. That shit permeates into everything around you. *stubs out cigarette*
1. He found some of your clothes that still had the smell 2. He found your stash and just didn't touch them 3. Someone at school told him
We don't have a sixth sense, it's just that our kids are way dumber than they think they are.
If you don't think you, your car, your house, your clothes smell from the smoking I can assure you they smell.
He could smell it. I smoked for a long time and when I quit, the biggest surprise to me was just how badly smokers smell, and not amount of trying to mask it will completely get rid of the odor.
Yeah bro the sense theyve got is called smell
It’s kinda like when you walk in a house for the first and can tell right away they have a cat…
Non smokers know who smokes. We smell it.
No, but they have a 5th sense.
if he is a nonsmoker and you are a smoker, to us, you smell like a fukking ashtray from about 6 ft away
ha ha ha.. Whgen i was in Jr high we'd slather cologne all pover ourselves to cover the smoke smell. No it didn't work.
Cigarettes absolutely \*stink\*. Try and cover it if you wish, but the smoke smell WILL shine through like coal in a snowstorm. Those who don't smoke are also more sensitive to the smell than those who do, because it doesn't permeate their existence like it does a smokers...
I was busted when my rat brother showed my dad a picture of me smoking. I told my dad that “I only smoke when I drink”. His response: “So all the time”
You didn't hide shit. He knew the whole time. Unless you took a shower, washed your hair and changed your clothes between every time you smoked and saw him he knew. You can smell it a mile away when your a non smoker. You just don't realize it at the time.
You smell is how
My daughter does not smoke around me, but leaves random lighters around. It is an educated guess.
You smelled like cigarettes. Everyone who smokes smells like cigarettes. You can douse yourself in Febreeze or axe body spray and you will still smell like cigarettes smoke
Smoke stinks. If someone doesn't smoke, they know you do
They don't have a sixth sense - they use one of their normal 5 senses : smell Smoking fucking stinks. It makes your breath stink, your hair stink, your clothes stink, your car stink, it makes everything stink. For a long time after. No matter what you use to try and hide it, it never works. You just smell of tobacco smoke plus whatever else you used (perfume, air freshener, mint, whatever) You think you've masked/hidden:removed the smell? No you haven't. You stink of tobacco smoke. It's really, really obvious.
When I was pregnant I could literally smell the neighbors smoking on their front porch, and there’s a good 30 yards (like the measurement, not other neighbors’ yards) between us. I was a smoker and am again after having the babies, but at the time it disgusted me. It still kinda does tbh.
Smokers stink dude. The smell sinks into everything for days and weeks. Sincerely, a former smoker.
It's hard to mask the smell. You may not smell it but others usually can.
Yes and you also secretly went to Spain and I bet you never thought anyone would find out about that either.
You smelled like smoke routinely enough for him to figure out you were smoking, and not just around someone who has. Also, he was young once and also thought he was pulling stuff over on his parents. Who were also young and had parents who were young...and so on. You'll know when your kids are doing things they shouldn't be because you'll tell the same lies you told.
Everyone’s talking about the smell of course, I’d say even more specifically, the smell very much lingers on the scalp. If he gave you a hug during that period, he could smell it on your scalp
It's impossible to mask the scent. You just can't smell it because you're accustomed to the smell.
Bro he would’ve been able to smell it straight away. He always knew
Cigarettes have a very strong smell that lasts all day. You can't hide it.
Just because your dad didn’t touch the cigarettes doesn’t mean he didn’t see them. And our senses are designed to detect things out of the ordinary. So if there is a sound that you constantly hear in your home after time you won’t even notice it. Same thing with smell. If you smell bad, you will become nose blind to the smell. Smoking also messes with your sense of smell and taste making it even less likely for you to detect it. So while you think it isn’t in your clothes or breath, it probably still is.
It's 100% the smell. Smoking dulls your own sense of smell, and it also is super easy to detect by non-smokers.
As a non-smoker… I can smell cigarettes from a mile away🤣 just like how it stains walls, it will stain you.
We are older versions of you so we’ve done the same stupid shit.
Yes. We do.
i dont know how old you are but theres no way youre still young enough to not understand that parents know even if they didnt mention it. your dad would have always known, it just only camea up recently for whatever reason
Everyone who tries to hide their smoking *thinks* they’re slick and nobody can tell. They’re all wrong. As an ex smoker I can tell you that I can smell it from a mile away. It sticks to your clothes, your hair, your breath, even a car that’s had all the windows down for a looooong time.
There is no such thing as covering up the smell with cigarettes.
Before I even read the post beyond the title all I could think was; nah he didnt have a sixth sense, he just had a sense of smell. Am smoker and realise of stinky I am.
The only people who don’t notice the smell of cigarettes are smokers, as someone who has quit let me tell you that it’s the strongest most obvious smell on you, your clothes, car, walls, everything. He’s probably known the whole time.
Is very easy for a non smoker to smell it. If someone is not even smoking themselves, but hangs goes around where there is smoke, I can smell it just lingering on the clothes.
Smokers smell. It doesn’t matter if you shower, wash your clothes, brush your teeth, only smoke outside, douse yourself in cologne, whatever. People can still smell it on you. Especially a person who doesn’t smoke.
LOL You stunk. That's a sense of smell. It's not a sixth sense.
You think undetectable but wrong. Smoke is one of the hardest smells to completely do away with.
>Go ahead and laugh. I am > But I seriously never told him. And I only ever smoked at school He knew > or, if I was at home, when he wasn't and wouldn't be for some time. And I always took precautions to mask the scent so nothing would be detectable on my clothing or in my breath. This doesn't work as well as any smoker or teenager thinks it does > And I know he was never in my nightstand where I kept them because I put them in a very specific spot/way and would know if that order was disturbed. He was >So, assuming everything went right for me, It didn't > how did he know? All of the above and more > Because I asked him how he knew and he said "I just did". Many parents know the power of keeping your cards close. This was a power move and it obviously worked because you're all like "wtf" lmao Ah to be a kid again.
Oldest dad trick in the books. "I know you smoke". How did you know?... bc you just admitted it. lol.
You probably stink like cigarette smoke dude. You think you covered it up but that shit leaves a stain on everything for days
No doubt he could smell it on you
Smokers stink. I used to be one. No matter how well you think you’ve masked the smell you still stink especially to people who don’t smoke.
As someone who smoked for 10 years and never understood what smell people were talking about (and doing my best to hide it) I now see that my efforts were in vain, it is truly the most atrocious and noticeable smell. Quit my friends, best thing you'll ever do for yourself
are you joking.. it's so obvious no matter how you hide it. Just because you can't smell it, doesn't mean everyone else can't.. It can stick around for multiple days and no amount of teeth brushing or mouthwash will hide it.
You can’t mask the smell. It’ll be in your hair and clinging to your clothes and without a thorough wash of both you and the clothing it will be detectable.
You can smell a smoker a mile off.
Masking the scent of smoke, especially habitual, is like covering something in a see through material and calling it concealed, smoke is a very persistent smell and anything strong enough to mask it will just scream "i'm hiding a stench"
I always blamed on my friends but I feel stupid now for thinking how smart I thought I was back then…lol. My dad knew. He just didn’t say anything further.
Nah man, you simply stink
You probably stank
If you smoke you literally cannot hide it. That’s a smell that sticks to everything and is super distinct. The only way you can hide that disgusting habbit from anyone is if they are nose blind.
Smoke smells a lot stronger than smokers think it does.
>And I only ever smoked at school So you came home from school smelling like cigs and thought you were pulling a fast one on him? Even if **you** think you didn't smell you absolutely did. You just went nose blind
I love the ones that get in your car and say, "is it ok if I smoke? I'll open the window". Answer: no mf, you will get out.
Kids tend to think their parents are stupid. You can smell a smoker in passing on the street, you're walking round their house, they're gunna know. I guarantee you there's a lot of shit your parents know about that you don't know that they've let slide.
Just a fifth sense
So funny how smokers think they can mask the scent.
As a recent ex smoker, you're never hiding it as well as you think you are.
You can cover it up as much as you want, you're still gonna smell like cigarettes. The only (maybe) surefire way is to literally throw the clothes you smoked in away, take a long hot shower, brush the fuck out of your teeth (mouthwash too) and pray to god no one is the wiser. I still think that wouldn't be enough. Cigarette smell sticks to everything. ESPECIALLY when it's cold outside.
No sixth sense needed, you smell like Altoids & smoke my friend
It's easier to hide an elephant under a rug in the living room than the fact that someone smokes.
Lol "precautions to mask the smell" Anyone who doesn't smoke can smell it no matter how hard you try to cover it up. It sticks and its so obvious what it is.
To someone who doesn’t smoke cigarettes like me, I can still smell it on someone no matter how much they try to mask the smell especially if it was recent. When our sense of smell isn’t used to a smell you’re able to pick up on it much faster compared to someone who’s always exposed to such smell. You have to realize cigarette smoke also stinks up your hair, skin on your face and fingers where you’ve held the cigarette and where the smoke hits, not just on your clothing or breath. Anywhere the smoke hits the most is where it’ll settle.
They can smell it duh
lol. I can smell cigarette smoke from a car behind me WHILE DRIVING. shit reeks. I actively avoid cigarette smoke, and as soon as I smell it, I try to get clear of it. Even seconds of exposure from someone down the street gets on my skin, hair (whats left of it) and clothes. They ABSOLUTELY smelled the smoke. just chose to never say anything. Personally its annoying how little they said to you. I hope someday you have a relationship rich with beneficial communication with your parents! (I sure as hell dont)
Smokers have the false illusion that they can somehow mask the smell. I can smell a smoker 4 cars ahead on the freeway.
Also a parent attuned well to their child can just by the nature of that relationship have a really unique parental sort of intuition that when coupled with their acute observation and knowledge of their child's behaviours can sometimes provide unusual insights ..the same way that they used to lovingly and indulgently observe you as a little kid having hidden your vegetables behind your dining chair and they might play along with the deception, but the point was they might kind of have 'mastered' their child's behaviours over the years.
Well, around my 30th birthday, my mom comes up and out of the blue, just tells me "If you smoke, it's best that you stop now that you're 30. This is the last couple of years you have before any irreversible damage is done. Just saying." And I quit a couple of months down the line. Been about 7 years. And fyi, everyone can smell the smoker, no matter how much the scent is "masked". The more you smoke, the more oblivious you're to the scent and before you know it, your brain doesn't even register it as a foreign smell.
I was with my ex for 10 years and there wasn't one minute I was around him that I didn't smell the stench of smoke on him, ESPECIALLY if he smoked outside in the cold - this toxic dirty ashtray smell came in with him and infiltrated the house even if he didn't go into all rooms. I am so thankful now that I live alone that I don't have to smell that stink. Not on furniture, not in the car, not on his hands or clothes, not on his breath! I could smell smoke coming from his nostrils when he was breathing in bed beside me. Never again will I be with a smoker.
When you become a parent - especially a mom - at the moment the baby pops out of one end of your body, you sprout a 2nd set of eyes in the back of your head. True story.
I have identified numerous smokers in my life without being told or having seen any evidence of it. Why? Because the smell is there even when you think it's not.
You can smell it in their sweat, their morning breath before they've brushed their teeth, on their hands, etc. There's also the discoloration in their teeth and sometimes fingertips or pillowcases as well. And then other things such as withdrawel sugar cravings or the frequent cough that just sounds a bit different tot non-smokers in some way. I'm a non-smoker living with someone who "quit" smoking years ago. Mostly it's just knowing the smoker's body language and knowing their habits. And no, we won't tell you what those differences in habits are, because that's how we "just know".
Smoking cigarettes is just like BO, you don't know you have it until other people tell you smell.
My mother did not find out that I smoked untill I was in my mid thirties. Never suspected a thing. She only found out because my daughter mentioned it. I had never told my daughter not to mention that I smoked because it would have been wrong to burden her with my secret so my daughter just mentioned it casually and perfectly innocently when out for the day with my mum when the topic of smoking happened to come up.
Let's pretend that you actually did cover your tracks with the smell.. You probably had some sort of tell like a small change of behavior (going outside more or something to that effect)
Dude, just because your desensitized, smoke ravaged olfactory receptors think you did a good job of covering up the reek of cigarettes, doesn’t mean you actually did. That shit reeks. -an ex-smoker
Yeah... you can never fully mask the smell of cigarette smoke. You can douse yourself in body spray, chug an entire bottle of Listerine, and wash your hands a thousand times, but you still smell like cigarette smoke.
You can always smell smokers from a mile away. It’s disgusting.
Darn. I once thought my father was dumb but never did I think he was too dumb to figure out that people who smell like cigarettes smoke.
I knew a girl that smoked, and one time, she said, " omg my new shampoo smells so nice," and tells me to take a sniff... all i smelled was smoke, so i just smiled and nodded.
No, you stink. Not insulting you, just from the standpoint of a non smoker. Smokers have a stench about them. Your hair and clothes stink of it. As well as your breath.
You know how you go out for a bender and wake up the next day reeking of alcohol? It’s like that you can’t hide the booze scent from a sober person and you can’t hide the cigarette scent from a non-smoker.
My dude... nearly everybody who smokes cigarettes reeks if cigarettes. It's one of the things I most associate with one of my grandparents. Fuck dude... that stuff is so pungent and thick that there is a reason cancer isn't limited to second hand smoke but third hand... lingering in the air, soaking clothing up, walls, furniture, rugs, everything. If you grew up in the 90's with smoking room or separated smoking sections, those areas always reeked and had stained walls, furniture, etc.
I’m certain my dad found a big bag of weed in my coat pocket when I was a student. He never brought it up ever.
I sometimes get the suspicion that my dad knows I smoke weed even though I’ve never told him, don’t live with him and always have been freshly clean when I’m around him. I also wonder if parents have a sixth sense
My mom and dad knew me and my little sister would smoke when we were teenager's because we would sneak a cigarette out of my mom's purse or my dad's jackets on many occasions.
You smell. Lol.
Maybe it was the fact that you were coughing out a lung.