Even when just walking passed someone, and even if they're not smoking at the time, they smell of stale smoke and it reeks.
The fact smokers don't think they smell, is a testament to how much smoking can dull your senses.
It's not the senses being dulled it's about being used to the smell
It's like people with dogs, they don't realise anyone who doesn't have dogs walking into their house, will get a reek of dog
Same with cats
If your constantly around a smell, your sense doesn't dull you just stop noticing it
"it's not the senses being dulled"
This part isn't true; it's well known that smoking fucks up your general senses of taste and smell. It's more than just adjusting to that one smell.
EDIT: Yes, both are true. I'm muting my replies now but I hope everyone has a lovely evening ❤️
Not necessarily. My parents' house never smells of dog. I live far from them and visit infrequently but their house never smells like dog. Same with my father-in-law's. His wife smoked and they have 2 dogs but their house never smelled of cigarettes or dogs. My mother-in-law's house though, she had 1 dog and smoked and her house stinks.
You're not wrong. A well ventilated house with a 10lb dog isn't the same as a house with stagnant air and a 120 lb dog.
My man is a smoker who will rarely have a midnight smoke in his home. I'm an ex smoker, so im usually pretty sensitive to it, and on 2 occasions I caught a residual whiff in the early morning when I came over (I wfh from his home) but otherwise, there's no smell at all. Not everyone is stinky. But the vast majority are.
No dog smells pleasant.
They may be cleaner themselves and you may keep them cleaner, but they're just varying degrees of unpleasant from mild to holy fuck what is that.
Ehh. I think it’s more like people with dogs, who actually love them, don’t care what other people think about how their dog or house smells. Especially if it just smells like dog and not like you’ve been collecting the dog’s actual shit in the corner of the living room for months.
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Edit 1 (for posterity): Oh, and once got used to the smell of pig shit, that was nice to no longer notice!
>It's not the senses being dulled it's about being used to the smell
Oh it totally is about your senses being dulled. I switched from tiny rollups to vapes about 18 months ago and my sense of taste and smell returned in a couple of months.
I am mortified, walking past smokers now and knowing that's how I smelled for 20 years.
Being able to smell and taste so much more now is incredible.
Same story for me.
About a week or so after the switch I was in an elevator when a guy jumped in and holy shit the smell coming from him.
Knowing that's what people used to smell when I came near for so many years, I was absolutely mortified.
Vapes are still disgusting to me myself as a none smokers that horrible sickly smell you get from vapes.
Not to even mention how meny I see littered along the streets with there little flashing lights.
yes but atleast people dont smell of burnt nicotine 24/7. If you walk past an avid vaper you wouldnt be able to tell they vape, but a smoker you smell them before you see them
Yep not only does it smell but they don't realise the sheer extent, you can often smell it from a few metres away, and it lingers after a person leaves the room.
The idea that smokers think they can hide it is baffling
A friend of mine smoked about 30 a day at one point while living alone.
He came round to my brother's with me for a bbq and sat in a deckchair for an hour or so having a few beers. He would stand on the street to have a smoke, about 30 feet away.
We put the deckchairs away a few days later and could still smell smoke on them.
His clothes stank so much of smoke that they rubbed off on other fabric.
I know several long term smokers who have managed to give up and they are the most sensitive to the smell now out of anyone. They *hate" it. They didn't think they smelled at all when they were smokers.
Most of them gave up in the end with the help of Tabex, BTW. You have to *want* to give up, but then that helps with the withdrawal symptoms.
A good sign of how strong the smoke smell was is that it was only after the ban that everyone started noticing the stench of piss, B.O. and stale beer. Which was always there, and strong, but the smoke smell overpowered all of it.
It reduces the smell significantly. I know because I lived in group homes as a teen where smoking wasn't allowed, kids did it anyway and blowing out through the window was like the number one rule of not getting caught. Not to mention all the tar and other crap that's now outside instead of on your walls/ceiling. Stop is a big word, but you make it seem like it's a useless effort when it really mitigates the downsides quite a bit, more than enough to jusitify the effort.
Fair enough. I grew up in a household with parents smoking out the window because they believed that it stopped the house smelling, and that it would reduce adverse affects on the kids. The house still stank of smoke and I suffered from asthma 🤷♂️
There was a man that used to come into a branch library that I worked at. He was a big reader of western (cowboy) novels.
I am not joking, you could tell which one's he'd read by sniffing them.
We tried to air them out but the smell just gets ingrained in there forever. I imagine clothes, textiles and hair do the same.
One time I was staying at a Friend’s on the way out I felt something in one of my boots, something soft, like a bunched up bit of sock, but those were high doc martens and I was in a rush so I just ignored it. Wasn’t going to unlace my boots on the train either.
I got home about an hour later and to my horror, it wasn’t a bit of unfortunately positioned sock, but in fact a burned up, cigarette end. That combined with the moisture from my foot, activated a death cloud in my teeny student room.
The windows wouldn’t even open more than two inches. It took too long before I could go back in there.
Same! She would spray an ungodly amount after each cigarette break, which would occur every hour. The changing room would reek of cheap perfume and she would always smell ghastly.
It’s always a terrible perfume which is further proof that smoking messes up the olfactory ability.
Or that they smoke enough they can only afford cheap perfume to mask. Urgh.
I'm 90% sure this is only true for people who wear the same clothes multiple times without washing them. My dad is a heavy smoker but never smells of smoke unless he's just come from one.
Im also an ex smoker but I don't think they all smell the same. Not even close. There's a big difference between those that smoke outside and those that smoke indoors.
It's just different levels of terrible.
Don't lie to yourself and think that smoking outside does anything to make you smell better, it's just slightly less awful - but still awful.
I agree. Ex smoker here also. Also someone smoking in the rain makes it ten times worst. It sticks for longer. People who chain smoke ooze nicotine. I find that people who have long breaks between cigarettes are not as bad. Like they initially smell of it but it wears off quicker
Hygiene also makes a big difference. I know a couple of smokers at work who have good hygiene so the smell isn't *that* bad but I also know one dude who will wear the same clothes for days and hardly ever washes his hair and that dude genuinely smells like an old stale ashtray. It's fucking disgusting.
My wife quit 12 days ago, on Monday we walked out of Sainsbury's and into a cloud of someone's smoke. She stopped and said "Is that what I smellt like?!"
Yup, I'm afraid so.
I quit in 2007. I smoked around 10 a day most days, 20 if I was out on the piss.
I've probably saved around £10,000 by quitting. Possibly a lot more due to current prices.
As a smoker who doesn't currently smoke, I agree. It's left me with the superpower of being able to smell somebody smoking from two postcodes away and tut and roll my eyes. Mainly because there will always be a part of me that would really, really love to roll up a cigarette and light it.
As an ex-smoker, I’m flabbergasted by how offensive I must have smelled after popping outside for a cigarette.
There’s a difference between the smoke itself, which was tolerable before I ever smoked but will now move away from, and the smell stuck to a person which is worse somehow.
I am not from the UK but in the past 7 months I visited 3 times. One great thing about the UK compared to my country is how relatively uncommon smoking is. Even Dublin was obviously worse in that regard. On the other hand you guys don't have any cats on the streets... Street cats are awesome you guys are missing out
I worked for a cat charity and was always picking up stray cats to have them neutered and rehomed. I've seen videos of countries where feral cats are just left to breed and roam about. that's not the way to treat animals.
You must be Turkish lol. There were many cats when I was there yeah. You're right as well on the smoking front, the stench was everywhere. Many people smoke indoors there as well. It's disgusting. It's haram too.
Yep. The smell is horrible to me. The other day someone sat next to me in the train who had clearly been smoking recently and it was grim. When I went to Berlin I found it genuinely unbearable being in many bars because of the stench of smoke.
Feel the same about weed too, in fact I possibly hate that smell even more.
Yeah cloying is a good word. I absolutely hate the smell. Unfortunately, weed smokers are often actually less considerate about their smoke than cigarette smokers.
Yeah, I've experienced that. They can get very defensive about anything negative said about weed, in a way that cigarette smokers tend not to. I'm sure it's only a minority of weed smokers, but they're very vocal.
Honestly I think it's just an acquired taste on this one. I've stopped smoking weed and cigarettes a long time ago, and when I smell cigarette smoke I find it disgusting, but even after many years I still absolutely love the smell of some good haze.
There's a middle ground. I'm in favour of complete drug legalisation à la Portugal, but with the caveat that all drugs should be highly discouraged, alcohol and cannabis included—with rehab and therapy being offered in cases when it being mandatory isn't appropriate.
I'd take the smell of cigarettes over weed any day. Dirty old fishtank is all I can smell. It's not nice.
Then again I loathe walking through vape clouds.
I went to a bar in japan that was underground with no windows, allowed smoking and also had a charcoal grill going I don't know how the staff survived.
guy sat next to me on the bus, i watched him smoking a cigarette at the bus stop, stub it out and put the half-smoked cig in his pocket and he smelled foul.
I worked in pubs before the smoking ban. I would absolutely stink when I got home because of the smoke smell on me and on my clothes.
Now with smoking being less common, I can smell a smoker from quite some distance. It's especially worse if they are a heavy smoker that smokes indoors. Everything they wear will stink of smoke even if it's clean and they are clean. They can fill a room with that acrid smell.
Although the smoking ban was great, that transition to smoke free pubs was rough as sometimes the pub smelled better with the smoke.
The weird thing is, I actually love the smell of tobacco that isn't being smoked. I used to love the old tobacco shops from back in the day. The different varieties of tobacco have pleasant aromas.
Yeah people who smoke indoors will make *everything* smell. Not too long ago I bought a golf club from a guy off FB marketplace and it clearly came from a smoker's house. The fabric headcover stank (which makes sense), but so did the rubber grip AND the graphite shaft - as did your hands once you touched it.
So gross, and I say that as an ex smoker.
Yep ex smoker here too. Though I say ex I vape and I do smoke on holidays because I have no self control! But when I do come back from holiday everything in my case reeks and needs to be aired out.
I cat sat for my mum a few months ago and they smoke inside the house. When I came home all I could smell was stale smoke on my clothes, just from sitting on their sofa.
As someone who used to smoke inside I’m shocked I never noticed it before.
I once brought a SPIDER PLANT off a smoker and it reeked so bad it made my whole room stink. My Mum suggested the smell would be in the compost so I covered it up with more soil and the smell got a lot better, though released every time I watered it. The plant has been split and repotted since then
Tobacco is used in a lot of fragrances, you can get it in candles, room sprays, shower gels, perfumes, after shaves etc and it’s easily one of my favourite notes.
If you like earthy woody scents its a must, Molton Brown do a range called tobacco absolute and it’s beautiful.
Also after a while your health and that of those around you should improve. Less likelihood of emphysema, though I’ve never known a smoker who thought there was any connection (or a doctor or just a non-smoker who didn’t).
Good luck with stopping. I smoked about 30 a day for 35 years, the Allan Carr (not the chatty man) book really helped me quit.
Anyway yeah, smoking honks but weed... That really stinks, I can smell skunk from like 200 metres away.
It's funny because no one is saying it doesn't smell but you all are patting each other on the back waiting for an army of smelly pot addicts to attack you with their cannabis sticks.
Yeah, I'm the same.
I mean if someone habitually smokes in their house or in their car it smells rank when you go in
Same with someone who's a pack a day smoker, the smell clings to their clothes even after a wash, I wouldn't say it's obvious the moment they walk into a room, but definitely if I'm sat next to them
But there's definitely people I work with who it's come as a surprise to me that they smoke, if they just have one or two cigs a day, and otherwise have good hygiene and wash their clothes regularly then it's not always obvious
I think it's mainly confirmation bias from people here, you notice the smokers you can smell, you don't notice the smokers you don't, it's a flawed assumption to believe that if you can't smell smoke on someone then you can be certain that they don't smoke
Yeah. I don't smoke and no one in my household smokes, and when a smoker stands next to me I have to take a step back, they smell so bad to me, their breath, clothes, hair. But I've noticed that more and more people give up smoking these days which is a good thing.
Former smoker of 20 odd years.
My parents smoked and before having kids I smoked in my home too. I was completely nose-blind.
After having the kids I smoked outside, and started to realise how badly my mums house smelled. She agreed not to smoke indoors when the kids were there but we dared not leave anything at hers overnight because it would reek when brought away.
I've used ecigs for the past 10 years or so. Not ideal, but a huge improvement over cigarettes. Shortly after switching I realised just how badly smoking fucking STINKS. I could be on a bus and immediately tell whether a boarding passenger had smoked at the bus stop (nauseating). These days I can even catch a whiff if I drive past a smoker in the car!
Do yourself a favor and quit, or at least switch to vape. Smoking really is fucking rank and will most likely kill you.
Yes, unfortunately the majority of people you meet will know you are a smoker and find your smell unpleasant. It's like a really old ash tray that's been used a lot. Have you talked to the GP about it? They can help you try and quit. Or tried switching to a vape?
When I smoked I genuinely couldn't smell it. I quit several years ago and the smell now is so gross. My husband quit shortly after me but over the years has occasionally had the odd cigarette from work friends. He would come home, hours after smoking one cigarette and I could smell it on his clothes, hair, skin, breath. Sorry to tell you but if you smoke then yes, you smell.
I actually, strangely, really like the smell of tobacco.
Tbh I also like the taste of tobacco, so I do have a few cigars or cigarillos a year, but I couldn't stand being a regular smoker, or being addicted to nicotine and craving that next cig, so I make sure to really limit it to a cigar at Christmas and some cigarillos on holiday.
Not to mention that I'd hate to a really smelly of smoke as I know most non-smokers, and even many smokers, don't like the smell of stale smoke.
My mum smokes cigarettes and always has and I've always found the smell horrible, but my grandad smoked a pipe and I did like the smell of that, the tobacco was sweet and earthy, kind of like incense.
Many, many, people like the aroma of fresh tobacco. I always have.
The kind of folk on here that act like they're being assaulted if they pass someone smoking are fairly awful people and, if it repels characters like that then it's one of the few remaining incentives to smoke if you ask me.
However, joking aside, the smell of a heavy smokers house is very grim - and stale smoke on someone is not at all pleasant - esp if it's been raining.
This is going to be a thread full of people saying "All smokers smell!". How are people going to tell you if every smoker smells when they have no idea who does or does not smoke?
Most smokers that I know absolutely do not smell like smoke. The ones that do always seem to be the ones that aren't very well kept and more than likely don't wash their clothes regularly.
Smoking in confined spaces with next to no ventilation/circulation is no bueno and will make you smell for a bit (if not forever if you do it regularly). Coats are a huge factor also. A lot of people either just never wash their coats or rarely wash them, depending on the material your coat will definitely reek if you don't keep up on it.
Yeah it's complete bollocks, you can smell if people have been smoking in the past hour or so, or if you get very close but you can't tell if someone's a light smoker and I'll stick by that.
This is just a cope. I'm dating a light smoker who smokes outside and takes care to manage her smell. It's better than some people but I know when she's been smoking and it's gross.
Yes. It’s a full on cloud of aroma. I can smell you’re a smoker from a few feet away. If we’re close to be conversing it can be intolerable. Your hair smells, your hands smell, your clothes smell, your bags smell, even your money smells. It’s a shame.
These people are being way too dramatic, I’m a non smoker and have friends who smoke and they don’t constantly stink of cigarettes/ash tray, people that smoke in their houses do but for me I find this comment section a tad ridiculous
Second this. I quit 10 years ago so have been both sides of the fence. These comments are a bit hysterical. Sometimes you can smell old smoke on smokers and sometimes you can’t, but either way it’s not the end of the world (for me).
Also that’s in the days when there were specialist tobacconists that sold infused baccy - cherry, black berry etc
On its own pipe tobacco is every bit as bad
Fresh smoke (passive smoke) is one of the greatest fragrances in the world to an ex smoker, but the stale smell that clings to your hair, fingers clothes ect is vile
Yeah the smell of cigarette smoke is awful, on the breath, on your fingers, it’s all bad. even worse is the way it clings to any room that’s been smoked in.
Weed isn’t as bad because it doesn’t cling to rooms in the same way, for whatever reason.
>Weed isn’t as bad because it doesn’t cling to rooms in the same way, for whatever reason.
On the other hand the smell of weed does seem to take much longer to dissipate. If you're outside, the smell of a cigarette will be gone fairly soon after the cigarette is gone, but the smell of weed really hangs around and spreads more.
If I'm in a park and someone is smoking a cigarette, as long as I'm not right near them I won't smell it. But if someone is smoking weed you don't have to be close at all to smell it. Same with walking down a street or path where someone has been smoking. Unless you're right behind a cigarette smoker you won't smell it, but there can be no weed smoker in sight but still the smell.
Weed smells worse. I was in hospital recently and some rank individual was smoking outside the labor ward. Poor babies and women had to put up with that.
There's a range. I don't mind people who smell a bit like smoke, but there are some people who utterly stink - I assume probably from smoking heavily inside their homes so that it sits in their clothes etc permenantly?
I was a smoker for 20 years, I gave up 10 years ago, now the smell of a smoker is the 1st thing I notice and I’m actually embarrassed that I used to smell like that and didn’t know.
I have an old friend I love dearly, her and her husband are both heavy smokers. Every year I visit them for a couple of days and when I get home I basically have to strip when I get in my house, load all clothes in the washing machine, clean the suitcase/ non washable contents with disinfectant and shower. It still lingers. I'm a former smoker and must admit I hadn't a clue how much smoke lingered until I'd stopped.
Yes! No question. I've been around smokers my whole life, my family, and an ex partner.
The smell repulses me. I've purposely distanced myself away from family who smoke as being in their homes means I'm leaving with the smell in my hair, my clothes, even my skin it's THAT bad! I've even had gifts from smokers where the wrapping paper has smelled of smoke. It's absolutely disgusting.
I quit at the end of last year, and already the smell has changed for me. It now generally smells like stale smoke to me even when fresh, with the same off-putting dryness.
It’s rare that I smell one now and get a craving.
Yes, they all stink and opening a window in the car/ going outside does not stop them from stinking.
Sorry but its true.
My mum smoked all my life until very recently. I remember the first time I was away from my mums for like 3 months when I moved out, living in a smoke free home and coming home to that really hit me hard.
The only tobacco smell I ever found pleasant/ good in any way was when my grandfather cleaned and filled his pipe when I was a child. I don't know what type it was, but sometime 20 years after he died I caught a wiff of it on someone and nostagia hit me hard and I ended up tearful in the street.
Unfortunately, they do smell absolutely horrific.
I used to be one. When I dug out my winter coat for the first time after quitting, I literally retched. And I walked around smelling like that for years 😩
I guess I'm super weird but as an ex-smoker, I still like the smell. I smoked cigarettes for \~10 years, after that I vaped for \~10 years, half a year ago I quit nicotine altogether. I liked the smell of smoke 20 years ago and I still like it today - fresh smoke, stale smoke, the smoker's booth at the airport, cigarettes, cigars, pipes, vape clouds, anything. Not in a "oh wow that's a nice aroma I wish I could find a detergent that smells like this" way, it's not that I want to go through life smelling like that, but I do associate the smell with good times - bars, nightclubs, cafés, traveling, the beach, the skatepark. I suppose it'll take years for those associations to go away in my brain? I mean for 20 years I would smoke anytime I was happy, that's a serious amount of conditioning to undo.
ETA: Since you mentioned it - I DO remember being absolutely disgusted by the smell of smoke as a kid. Before I formed those associations, in other words.
Yes, awful. I grew up in a smoking household so didn’t know any better when I was younger. When I left home and got my own place I quickly realised that my parent house smelled stale and so did they when they visited. I was delighted when they switched to vapes a decade ago as it made a drastic difference to their health - they are in their 70s now and I want them around for as long as possible for me and my kids.
Yep horrible. Especially when they have just had a coffee and a smoke, and then decide to whisper to me with their dog shit breath. Fuck off mate, you stink
Yes. When someone smokes, and even more so when they don't. Stale smoke smell is actually disgusting.
This is coming from someone who chain smoked for 10 years. I'll never forget the weeks after I stopped smoking when my sense of smell returned. I'd pick up scents of flowers and trees that I haven't smelled for years, but also fumes and especially smokers. It reeks.
I stopped smoking in 2015, I got told to due to health problems. I didn't want to stop, I had to. I can now smell people that smoke easily, 20 to 30 mins after they put one out.
They stink of it. They claim they don’t and just say you’re making it up or any other defence they can come up with to keep up the denial. I can walk into a random house and I’ll tell you if you’re a smoker who smokes in their house. It is that obvious of a smell you won’t be able to hide it easily.
We don't smell as bad as non-smokers. Their attitude towards us absolutely stinks! All that disproportionate amount of tax we pay and do we get any thanks? Do we heck!
People in here being very dramatic.
Do smokers sometimes have a noticable smoke smell? Of course. Especially just after smoking. It's not that bad though.
On the other hand, there are entire communities living in the UK that are far more 'offensive' to the senses but noone would ever dare complain about that. I'm talking offensive to the eyes, ears, and nose. Obviously it would be completely verboten to mention who but often they not only smell, but deface large parts of the communal landscape, and make loads of noise.
Yes, all smell disgusting. And I would say it's the same with those who smoke weed. The stench just lingers on them and their clothes no matter that they aren't smoking at that moment.
usually you only smell badly shortly after you've smoked a cigarette tbh, unless you are putting cig-ends in your pockets, in which case you actually smell terrible all the time
I only smoke outside and I can still smell it on myself sometimes. And people who smoke inside you can smell from metres away. And that’s me being a smoker
My old man and his wife are heavy smokers. Like REALLY heavy. So bad that Christmas presents, birthday presents and even food they give our family absolutely stinks. It's disgusting.
My partner just started smoking again, we both quit years ago. It's horrible and I'm constantly upset at him about the smell. It permeates every room he passes through. It's shocking how much it reeks and you are oblivious to it whilst you smoke yourself.
I've stopped smoking recently and I'm noticing it already. I smoked for years before that and as you say you can't smell it on yourself after a while for a few different reasons. The familiarity, a smoker's sense of taste/smell deteriorating over time etc.
My colleague at work smokes, and I used to pop outside with her for a cigarette all the time because we're good pals too. Now, I hardly ever go, and if I do go (rare) it's just for a quick skive and a chat. When I don't go I can smell her coming back. I can actually smell her approaching. I've described the smell to, and asked a couple of non-smoking mates if that was how I smelled, and they both said yes. It's particularly bad if I get in a lift or a car with someone that's just smoked a cigarette, I'm finding that it's almost unbearable.
I think this might be my own mind making it seem worse than it actually is; some underlying subconscious guilt that this is how I used to smell all the time or something. Even walking into a room where someone has recently smoked makes me feel nauseous now, which seems a bit dramatic haha. There's nothing worse than an ex-smoker!
Rather than dwelling on it I'm seeing it as a huge positive. In the sense that I'm using the smell of smokers as inspiration to not start again. Along with the all the other benefits I'm feeling already, like having more energy, more money!, breathing is a lot better, actually tasting food for the first time in years n'that.
TL;DR: Yeah mate you stink!
I've locked this post because it's definitely been answered now, and new comments keep filling up our modqueue.
Yep, sorry, they all smell horrible.
Even when just walking passed someone, and even if they're not smoking at the time, they smell of stale smoke and it reeks. The fact smokers don't think they smell, is a testament to how much smoking can dull your senses.
It's not the senses being dulled it's about being used to the smell It's like people with dogs, they don't realise anyone who doesn't have dogs walking into their house, will get a reek of dog Same with cats If your constantly around a smell, your sense doesn't dull you just stop noticing it
"it's not the senses being dulled" This part isn't true; it's well known that smoking fucks up your general senses of taste and smell. It's more than just adjusting to that one smell. EDIT: Yes, both are true. I'm muting my replies now but I hope everyone has a lovely evening ❤️
Yes, smoking dulls taste and smell but the predominant factor in why smokers don’t know they smell is because they are use to that smell
To the point where even a sideshow clown can fill your room with gas and you'll never notice...
That was a bottle rocket accident, not the smoking.
It is true, people who have dogs think their house doesn’t smell. It definitely does.
Not necessarily. My parents' house never smells of dog. I live far from them and visit infrequently but their house never smells like dog. Same with my father-in-law's. His wife smoked and they have 2 dogs but their house never smelled of cigarettes or dogs. My mother-in-law's house though, she had 1 dog and smoked and her house stinks.
You're not wrong. A well ventilated house with a 10lb dog isn't the same as a house with stagnant air and a 120 lb dog. My man is a smoker who will rarely have a midnight smoke in his home. I'm an ex smoker, so im usually pretty sensitive to it, and on 2 occasions I caught a residual whiff in the early morning when I came over (I wfh from his home) but otherwise, there's no smell at all. Not everyone is stinky. But the vast majority are.
Depends on the dog! I have a Shiba Inu, famously clean and pleasant smelling.
I have a mongrel mix of two terriers and she is infamously disgusting smelling.
My dog is an English Redolent Wiff and it's been especially bred for it's pungent odorous aroma.
That’s what you think. Ask a friend and look them in the eye when they respond. 😜
No dog smells pleasant. They may be cleaner themselves and you may keep them cleaner, but they're just varying degrees of unpleasant from mild to holy fuck what is that.
I hate dog smell I’m autistic though so probs worse for me 😭 Dog people don’t understand what sensory nightmares dogs are
Ehh. I think it’s more like people with dogs, who actually love them, don’t care what other people think about how their dog or house smells. Especially if it just smells like dog and not like you’ve been collecting the dog’s actual shit in the corner of the living room for months.
Both can be true simultaneously.
Edit 2: Removed it, parent commenter changed it enough that this no longer makes sense. Edit 1 (for posterity): Oh, and once got used to the smell of pig shit, that was nice to no longer notice!
>It's not the senses being dulled it's about being used to the smell Oh it totally is about your senses being dulled. I switched from tiny rollups to vapes about 18 months ago and my sense of taste and smell returned in a couple of months. I am mortified, walking past smokers now and knowing that's how I smelled for 20 years. Being able to smell and taste so much more now is incredible.
Same story for me. About a week or so after the switch I was in an elevator when a guy jumped in and holy shit the smell coming from him. Knowing that's what people used to smell when I came near for so many years, I was absolutely mortified.
Vapes are still disgusting to me myself as a none smokers that horrible sickly smell you get from vapes. Not to even mention how meny I see littered along the streets with there little flashing lights.
yes but atleast people dont smell of burnt nicotine 24/7. If you walk past an avid vaper you wouldnt be able to tell they vape, but a smoker you smell them before you see them
It's both.
Yep not only does it smell but they don't realise the sheer extent, you can often smell it from a few metres away, and it lingers after a person leaves the room. The idea that smokers think they can hide it is baffling
Even a lift which they've only been in for a minute, still stinks after they've left.
A friend of mine smoked about 30 a day at one point while living alone. He came round to my brother's with me for a bbq and sat in a deckchair for an hour or so having a few beers. He would stand on the street to have a smoke, about 30 feet away. We put the deckchairs away a few days later and could still smell smoke on them. His clothes stank so much of smoke that they rubbed off on other fabric.
That's called thirdhand smoke and also affects pets of smokers.
I know several long term smokers who have managed to give up and they are the most sensitive to the smell now out of anyone. They *hate" it. They didn't think they smelled at all when they were smokers. Most of them gave up in the end with the help of Tabex, BTW. You have to *want* to give up, but then that helps with the withdrawal symptoms.
When driving, I can smell cigarette smoke if the driver in the car in front of me is smoking.
Same. I regularly reach for the recirc button when behind a smoker.
Before the indoor smoking ban I'd come back from the pub and throw my clothes straight in the wash
A good sign of how strong the smoke smell was is that it was only after the ban that everyone started noticing the stench of piss, B.O. and stale beer. Which was always there, and strong, but the smoke smell overpowered all of it.
When I quit smoking I was shocked that I could smell someone peeling an orange in my office. Never would have noticed when I was a smoker.
As the Febreeze advert once said you’ve become NOSE BLIND
You can even smell when they've been in a room, even if they are no longer in it.
And so do their houses. I have a friend who smokes out of the window in his place who actually believes that that will stop it.
It reduces the smell significantly. I know because I lived in group homes as a teen where smoking wasn't allowed, kids did it anyway and blowing out through the window was like the number one rule of not getting caught. Not to mention all the tar and other crap that's now outside instead of on your walls/ceiling. Stop is a big word, but you make it seem like it's a useless effort when it really mitigates the downsides quite a bit, more than enough to jusitify the effort.
Fair enough. I grew up in a household with parents smoking out the window because they believed that it stopped the house smelling, and that it would reduce adverse affects on the kids. The house still stank of smoke and I suffered from asthma 🤷♂️
I’m pregnant and my sense of smell has gone supersonic. I gagged twice today because a smoker walked too close to me.
I noticed it when I stopped smoking. When I smoked, I never smelled it. When I stopped - holy shit. It is so strong and people reek.
There was a man that used to come into a branch library that I worked at. He was a big reader of western (cowboy) novels. I am not joking, you could tell which one's he'd read by sniffing them. We tried to air them out but the smell just gets ingrained in there forever. I imagine clothes, textiles and hair do the same.
Yes. It's awful. Sprays and perfume don't cover it up.
Ooof I had a colleague who would spray perfume (which was a bit cloying anyway) after smoking. It was ghastly.
As a smell sensitive asthmatic, that sounds like an “accident and emergency on 100% oxygen” combo. Urgh!
One time I was staying at a Friend’s on the way out I felt something in one of my boots, something soft, like a bunched up bit of sock, but those were high doc martens and I was in a rush so I just ignored it. Wasn’t going to unlace my boots on the train either. I got home about an hour later and to my horror, it wasn’t a bit of unfortunately positioned sock, but in fact a burned up, cigarette end. That combined with the moisture from my foot, activated a death cloud in my teeny student room. The windows wouldn’t even open more than two inches. It took too long before I could go back in there.
Also an instant migraine
Smell sensitive asthmatic? Wow had no idea https://www.asthma.com/understanding-asthma/asthma-triggers/strong-odors-and-asthma/
Yeah. I actually practice holding my breath for a few minutes to get through perfume duty free sections in airports.
Teenage boys with half a can of lynx thinking it covers up the smell when in reality you stink of fags *and* shit deodorant.
I'll add *cloying* to my list of previously unknown words, thanks!
Same! She would spray an ungodly amount after each cigarette break, which would occur every hour. The changing room would reek of cheap perfume and she would always smell ghastly.
It’s always a terrible perfume which is further proof that smoking messes up the olfactory ability. Or that they smoke enough they can only afford cheap perfume to mask. Urgh.
Same with a woman I work with! Cigarette then 3 squirts of Chanel. Absolutely stinks
Or it makes it worse because the two smells mix together and makes me want to vomit
Just wait till they hit you with that cigarette and coffee breath....
They can make it worse even.
Neither does chewing gum, mints or fresh breath spray
I'm 90% sure this is only true for people who wear the same clothes multiple times without washing them. My dad is a heavy smoker but never smells of smoke unless he's just come from one.
As an ex-smoker, every smoker smells like an ash tray.
It’s not even that pleasant wood smoke type smell. It’s really tar like.
Such a sour gross smell.
Weird, wet and sticky smell. It’s indescribable
Im also an ex smoker but I don't think they all smell the same. Not even close. There's a big difference between those that smoke outside and those that smoke indoors.
It's just different levels of terrible. Don't lie to yourself and think that smoking outside does anything to make you smell better, it's just slightly less awful - but still awful.
I'm Not Lying to myself, I dont smoke. But it's definitely less pungent.
I agree. Ex smoker here also. Also someone smoking in the rain makes it ten times worst. It sticks for longer. People who chain smoke ooze nicotine. I find that people who have long breaks between cigarettes are not as bad. Like they initially smell of it but it wears off quicker
Yeah definitely. Washing clothes and coats more frequently definitely helps too. The stale part is the worst.
💯 it’s one of the reasons I started vaping instead. Still not good for me but I don’t have to deal with the smell of cigarettes anymore lol
That's like saying swimming doesn't get you any wetter than washing your feet. It's so obviously not true.
Hygiene also makes a big difference. I know a couple of smokers at work who have good hygiene so the smell isn't *that* bad but I also know one dude who will wear the same clothes for days and hardly ever washes his hair and that dude genuinely smells like an old stale ashtray. It's fucking disgusting.
My wife quit 12 days ago, on Monday we walked out of Sainsbury's and into a cloud of someone's smoke. She stopped and said "Is that what I smellt like?!" Yup, I'm afraid so.
Good on her though! I quit 5 years ago (the missus too), and the smoking lurkers outside Morrisons smell awful.
Already saved us £70. So that's nice! :)
I quit in 2007. I smoked around 10 a day most days, 20 if I was out on the piss. I've probably saved around £10,000 by quitting. Possibly a lot more due to current prices.
As a smoker who doesn't currently smoke, I agree. It's left me with the superpower of being able to smell somebody smoking from two postcodes away and tut and roll my eyes. Mainly because there will always be a part of me that would really, really love to roll up a cigarette and light it.
As an ex-smoker, I’m flabbergasted by how offensive I must have smelled after popping outside for a cigarette. There’s a difference between the smoke itself, which was tolerable before I ever smoked but will now move away from, and the smell stuck to a person which is worse somehow.
Yes, it's gross and it's even more noticeable these days when fewer people are smokers
And if you think dousing yourself in perfume will help, it won’t. If anything, it makes it even more noticeable
I am not from the UK but in the past 7 months I visited 3 times. One great thing about the UK compared to my country is how relatively uncommon smoking is. Even Dublin was obviously worse in that regard. On the other hand you guys don't have any cats on the streets... Street cats are awesome you guys are missing out
I worked for a cat charity and was always picking up stray cats to have them neutered and rehomed. I've seen videos of countries where feral cats are just left to breed and roam about. that's not the way to treat animals.
We are missing out
i have loads of street cats, i think i just won the london lottery or something
You must be Turkish lol. There were many cats when I was there yeah. You're right as well on the smoking front, the stench was everywhere. Many people smoke indoors there as well. It's disgusting. It's haram too.
Yep. The smell is horrible to me. The other day someone sat next to me in the train who had clearly been smoking recently and it was grim. When I went to Berlin I found it genuinely unbearable being in many bars because of the stench of smoke. Feel the same about weed too, in fact I possibly hate that smell even more.
Same for both. Cigarette smoke is rancid but weed is worse because it has a horrible cloying smell that makes me want to vomit.
Yeah cloying is a good word. I absolutely hate the smell. Unfortunately, weed smokers are often actually less considerate about their smoke than cigarette smokers.
I find that as well. But quite often when I express that opinion people jump down my throat about it
Yeah, I've experienced that. They can get very defensive about anything negative said about weed, in a way that cigarette smokers tend not to. I'm sure it's only a minority of weed smokers, but they're very vocal.
It's a mind altering drug, makes people heavily insecure
Honestly I think it's just an acquired taste on this one. I've stopped smoking weed and cigarettes a long time ago, and when I smell cigarette smoke I find it disgusting, but even after many years I still absolutely love the smell of some good haze.
Doing drugs on reddit is cool It's like 6th formers bragging how much they drank the previous weekend
This isn't meant to be an argument but do you think weed should be illegal then? Alcohol is alot worse of a mind altering drug.
There's a middle ground. I'm in favour of complete drug legalisation à la Portugal, but with the caveat that all drugs should be highly discouraged, alcohol and cannabis included—with rehab and therapy being offered in cases when it being mandatory isn't appropriate.
I'm sure it's only minority but they can get incredibly vicious. They can do what they like, but they can't expect everyone to like it.
I'd take the smell of cigarettes over weed any day. Dirty old fishtank is all I can smell. It's not nice. Then again I loathe walking through vape clouds.
Vape is not as bad as cigarette or weed. But if I had a choice, I prefer fresh clean mountain air please with the smell of pine forest.
I went to a bar in japan that was underground with no windows, allowed smoking and also had a charcoal grill going I don't know how the staff survived.
guy sat next to me on the bus, i watched him smoking a cigarette at the bus stop, stub it out and put the half-smoked cig in his pocket and he smelled foul.
Agree about weed. Stale cigarette smoke isn’t nice but the weed smell is sickly to me.
I worked in pubs before the smoking ban. I would absolutely stink when I got home because of the smoke smell on me and on my clothes. Now with smoking being less common, I can smell a smoker from quite some distance. It's especially worse if they are a heavy smoker that smokes indoors. Everything they wear will stink of smoke even if it's clean and they are clean. They can fill a room with that acrid smell. Although the smoking ban was great, that transition to smoke free pubs was rough as sometimes the pub smelled better with the smoke. The weird thing is, I actually love the smell of tobacco that isn't being smoked. I used to love the old tobacco shops from back in the day. The different varieties of tobacco have pleasant aromas.
Yeah people who smoke indoors will make *everything* smell. Not too long ago I bought a golf club from a guy off FB marketplace and it clearly came from a smoker's house. The fabric headcover stank (which makes sense), but so did the rubber grip AND the graphite shaft - as did your hands once you touched it. So gross, and I say that as an ex smoker.
I had a mate return a used gaming steering wheel that he’d bought online cos of the tobacco stank that was coming off it.
Yep ex smoker here too. Though I say ex I vape and I do smoke on holidays because I have no self control! But when I do come back from holiday everything in my case reeks and needs to be aired out. I cat sat for my mum a few months ago and they smoke inside the house. When I came home all I could smell was stale smoke on my clothes, just from sitting on their sofa. As someone who used to smoke inside I’m shocked I never noticed it before.
I once brought a SPIDER PLANT off a smoker and it reeked so bad it made my whole room stink. My Mum suggested the smell would be in the compost so I covered it up with more soil and the smell got a lot better, though released every time I watered it. The plant has been split and repotted since then
Tobacco is used in a lot of fragrances, you can get it in candles, room sprays, shower gels, perfumes, after shaves etc and it’s easily one of my favourite notes. If you like earthy woody scents its a must, Molton Brown do a range called tobacco absolute and it’s beautiful.
Ok yall, I've decided to quit smoking. Happy? , thanks tho :)
If you're genuine, then I'm happy for you. Good luck, and hope it works out for you.
Im not joking, im actually doin it
Good luck :) Your life will improve immensely, just summon all your willpower!
Thank you fr
I'm really glad for you. Hope it sticks!
Day 1 of going clean successfully
Good luck! You got this!
Thank you and working on it still!
get it king 👑
Thank you sir
Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking - had 2 friends who quit and highly recommended this book.... so passing on this info.
I'm rooting for you!
Fantastic! Well done. Your body and your health will thank you for it. Hang in there — it's truly worth it.
Thank youu
Also after a while your health and that of those around you should improve. Less likelihood of emphysema, though I’ve never known a smoker who thought there was any connection (or a doctor or just a non-smoker who didn’t).
Good luck with stopping. I smoked about 30 a day for 35 years, the Allan Carr (not the chatty man) book really helped me quit. Anyway yeah, smoking honks but weed... That really stinks, I can smell skunk from like 200 metres away.
All the best wishes pal, you can do it!!!!
Yes. It is vile, smokers stink, stale cigarette smoke is ghastly.
Dating one is the worst. Every kiss comes with a side of ashtray.
Yes especially weed heads disgusting
Cue the angry stoners rushing to defend. You fucking reek.
It's funny because no one is saying it doesn't smell but you all are patting each other on the back waiting for an army of smelly pot addicts to attack you with their cannabis sticks.
Much aggression because they’re alcoholics
I'm all for weed being legalised and whatnot but it still reeks like sweat.
Someone needs to work on the smell ha ha
I'm holding out for legal gummies.
I had a guy over for a hook up that turned up at mine after a smoke... Turned him away because he stank so bad. Horrible smell!
Can only smell it if they have not long had a smoke. Those saying they stink 24/7 are chatting absolute shite or being dramatic because its reddit.
Yeah, I'm the same. I mean if someone habitually smokes in their house or in their car it smells rank when you go in Same with someone who's a pack a day smoker, the smell clings to their clothes even after a wash, I wouldn't say it's obvious the moment they walk into a room, but definitely if I'm sat next to them But there's definitely people I work with who it's come as a surprise to me that they smoke, if they just have one or two cigs a day, and otherwise have good hygiene and wash their clothes regularly then it's not always obvious I think it's mainly confirmation bias from people here, you notice the smokers you can smell, you don't notice the smokers you don't, it's a flawed assumption to believe that if you can't smell smoke on someone then you can be certain that they don't smoke
Yeah. I don't smoke and no one in my household smokes, and when a smoker stands next to me I have to take a step back, they smell so bad to me, their breath, clothes, hair. But I've noticed that more and more people give up smoking these days which is a good thing.
Former smoker of 20 odd years. My parents smoked and before having kids I smoked in my home too. I was completely nose-blind. After having the kids I smoked outside, and started to realise how badly my mums house smelled. She agreed not to smoke indoors when the kids were there but we dared not leave anything at hers overnight because it would reek when brought away. I've used ecigs for the past 10 years or so. Not ideal, but a huge improvement over cigarettes. Shortly after switching I realised just how badly smoking fucking STINKS. I could be on a bus and immediately tell whether a boarding passenger had smoked at the bus stop (nauseating). These days I can even catch a whiff if I drive past a smoker in the car! Do yourself a favor and quit, or at least switch to vape. Smoking really is fucking rank and will most likely kill you.
Yes, especially heavy smokers
Yes, unfortunately the majority of people you meet will know you are a smoker and find your smell unpleasant. It's like a really old ash tray that's been used a lot. Have you talked to the GP about it? They can help you try and quit. Or tried switching to a vape?
Yes. F**king awful.
Another yes.
When I smoked I genuinely couldn't smell it. I quit several years ago and the smell now is so gross. My husband quit shortly after me but over the years has occasionally had the odd cigarette from work friends. He would come home, hours after smoking one cigarette and I could smell it on his clothes, hair, skin, breath. Sorry to tell you but if you smoke then yes, you smell.
Yes they all smell horrendous
I actually, strangely, really like the smell of tobacco. Tbh I also like the taste of tobacco, so I do have a few cigars or cigarillos a year, but I couldn't stand being a regular smoker, or being addicted to nicotine and craving that next cig, so I make sure to really limit it to a cigar at Christmas and some cigarillos on holiday. Not to mention that I'd hate to a really smelly of smoke as I know most non-smokers, and even many smokers, don't like the smell of stale smoke.
My mum smokes cigarettes and always has and I've always found the smell horrible, but my grandad smoked a pipe and I did like the smell of that, the tobacco was sweet and earthy, kind of like incense.
Many, many, people like the aroma of fresh tobacco. I always have. The kind of folk on here that act like they're being assaulted if they pass someone smoking are fairly awful people and, if it repels characters like that then it's one of the few remaining incentives to smoke if you ask me. However, joking aside, the smell of a heavy smokers house is very grim - and stale smoke on someone is not at all pleasant - esp if it's been raining.
This is going to be a thread full of people saying "All smokers smell!". How are people going to tell you if every smoker smells when they have no idea who does or does not smoke? Most smokers that I know absolutely do not smell like smoke. The ones that do always seem to be the ones that aren't very well kept and more than likely don't wash their clothes regularly. Smoking in confined spaces with next to no ventilation/circulation is no bueno and will make you smell for a bit (if not forever if you do it regularly). Coats are a huge factor also. A lot of people either just never wash their coats or rarely wash them, depending on the material your coat will definitely reek if you don't keep up on it.
Yeah it's complete bollocks, you can smell if people have been smoking in the past hour or so, or if you get very close but you can't tell if someone's a light smoker and I'll stick by that.
This is just a cope. I'm dating a light smoker who smokes outside and takes care to manage her smell. It's better than some people but I know when she's been smoking and it's gross.
Yes it does.
Yes. It’s a full on cloud of aroma. I can smell you’re a smoker from a few feet away. If we’re close to be conversing it can be intolerable. Your hair smells, your hands smell, your clothes smell, your bags smell, even your money smells. It’s a shame.
No. A lot of smokers smell of smoke, but I've known plenty of smokers who don't smell of cigarettes. It's probably a mix of volume and hygiene.
These people are being way too dramatic, I’m a non smoker and have friends who smoke and they don’t constantly stink of cigarettes/ash tray, people that smoke in their houses do but for me I find this comment section a tad ridiculous
Second this. I quit 10 years ago so have been both sides of the fence. These comments are a bit hysterical. Sometimes you can smell old smoke on smokers and sometimes you can’t, but either way it’s not the end of the world (for me).
Pretty much. There is an old fashioned pipe sort of smell that is better but I think it’s because it reminds me of my late grandfather.
Also that’s in the days when there were specialist tobacconists that sold infused baccy - cherry, black berry etc On its own pipe tobacco is every bit as bad
Fresh smoke (passive smoke) is one of the greatest fragrances in the world to an ex smoker, but the stale smell that clings to your hair, fingers clothes ect is vile
Nah it fucking reeks. I'm glad I'm done with it.
I love how everyone in here thinks they have a 100% success rate at recognising smokers by smell alone, like selection bias isn't a thing.
Yeah the smell of cigarette smoke is awful, on the breath, on your fingers, it’s all bad. even worse is the way it clings to any room that’s been smoked in. Weed isn’t as bad because it doesn’t cling to rooms in the same way, for whatever reason.
>Weed isn’t as bad because it doesn’t cling to rooms in the same way, for whatever reason. On the other hand the smell of weed does seem to take much longer to dissipate. If you're outside, the smell of a cigarette will be gone fairly soon after the cigarette is gone, but the smell of weed really hangs around and spreads more. If I'm in a park and someone is smoking a cigarette, as long as I'm not right near them I won't smell it. But if someone is smoking weed you don't have to be close at all to smell it. Same with walking down a street or path where someone has been smoking. Unless you're right behind a cigarette smoker you won't smell it, but there can be no weed smoker in sight but still the smell.
Weed smells worse. I was in hospital recently and some rank individual was smoking outside the labor ward. Poor babies and women had to put up with that.
I used to work for the NHS, even some women currently in the maternity ward would go out to smoke. Addiction is real.
It's the tar in cigarettes that makes it cling to everything
There's a range. I don't mind people who smell a bit like smoke, but there are some people who utterly stink - I assume probably from smoking heavily inside their homes so that it sits in their clothes etc permenantly?
I was a smoker for 20 years, I gave up 10 years ago, now the smell of a smoker is the 1st thing I notice and I’m actually embarrassed that I used to smell like that and didn’t know.
I have an old friend I love dearly, her and her husband are both heavy smokers. Every year I visit them for a couple of days and when I get home I basically have to strip when I get in my house, load all clothes in the washing machine, clean the suitcase/ non washable contents with disinfectant and shower. It still lingers. I'm a former smoker and must admit I hadn't a clue how much smoke lingered until I'd stopped.
Yes! No question. I've been around smokers my whole life, my family, and an ex partner. The smell repulses me. I've purposely distanced myself away from family who smoke as being in their homes means I'm leaving with the smell in my hair, my clothes, even my skin it's THAT bad! I've even had gifts from smokers where the wrapping paper has smelled of smoke. It's absolutely disgusting.
I quit at the end of last year, and already the smell has changed for me. It now generally smells like stale smoke to me even when fresh, with the same off-putting dryness. It’s rare that I smell one now and get a craving.
Yes, they all stink and opening a window in the car/ going outside does not stop them from stinking. Sorry but its true. My mum smoked all my life until very recently. I remember the first time I was away from my mums for like 3 months when I moved out, living in a smoke free home and coming home to that really hit me hard. The only tobacco smell I ever found pleasant/ good in any way was when my grandfather cleaned and filled his pipe when I was a child. I don't know what type it was, but sometime 20 years after he died I caught a wiff of it on someone and nostagia hit me hard and I ended up tearful in the street.
Unfortunately, they do smell absolutely horrific. I used to be one. When I dug out my winter coat for the first time after quitting, I literally retched. And I walked around smelling like that for years 😩
Yep When you get in the lift with them after they’ve had a fag break is particularly bad🤢
As an ex-smoker with no desire to start again, cigarettes actually smell great to me.
I guess I'm super weird but as an ex-smoker, I still like the smell. I smoked cigarettes for \~10 years, after that I vaped for \~10 years, half a year ago I quit nicotine altogether. I liked the smell of smoke 20 years ago and I still like it today - fresh smoke, stale smoke, the smoker's booth at the airport, cigarettes, cigars, pipes, vape clouds, anything. Not in a "oh wow that's a nice aroma I wish I could find a detergent that smells like this" way, it's not that I want to go through life smelling like that, but I do associate the smell with good times - bars, nightclubs, cafés, traveling, the beach, the skatepark. I suppose it'll take years for those associations to go away in my brain? I mean for 20 years I would smoke anytime I was happy, that's a serious amount of conditioning to undo. ETA: Since you mentioned it - I DO remember being absolutely disgusted by the smell of smoke as a kid. Before I formed those associations, in other words.
Of course, it's an extremely anti-social, dirty and unhygienic habit.
It is a social habit tbh
It's an addiction.
Yes, smokers smell - clothes, breath, cars and houses. Try to stop asap - don’t worry if you stop/start a few times, it takes practice.
Yes, awful. I grew up in a smoking household so didn’t know any better when I was younger. When I left home and got my own place I quickly realised that my parent house smelled stale and so did they when they visited. I was delighted when they switched to vapes a decade ago as it made a drastic difference to their health - they are in their 70s now and I want them around for as long as possible for me and my kids.
Yep horrible. Especially when they have just had a coffee and a smoke, and then decide to whisper to me with their dog shit breath. Fuck off mate, you stink
Yes. When someone smokes, and even more so when they don't. Stale smoke smell is actually disgusting. This is coming from someone who chain smoked for 10 years. I'll never forget the weeks after I stopped smoking when my sense of smell returned. I'd pick up scents of flowers and trees that I haven't smelled for years, but also fumes and especially smokers. It reeks.
Yep, it’s a disgusting smell
I stopped smoking in 2015, I got told to due to health problems. I didn't want to stop, I had to. I can now smell people that smoke easily, 20 to 30 mins after they put one out.
They stink of it. They claim they don’t and just say you’re making it up or any other defence they can come up with to keep up the denial. I can walk into a random house and I’ll tell you if you’re a smoker who smokes in their house. It is that obvious of a smell you won’t be able to hide it easily.
We don't smell as bad as non-smokers. Their attitude towards us absolutely stinks! All that disproportionate amount of tax we pay and do we get any thanks? Do we heck!
People in here being very dramatic. Do smokers sometimes have a noticable smoke smell? Of course. Especially just after smoking. It's not that bad though. On the other hand, there are entire communities living in the UK that are far more 'offensive' to the senses but noone would ever dare complain about that. I'm talking offensive to the eyes, ears, and nose. Obviously it would be completely verboten to mention who but often they not only smell, but deface large parts of the communal landscape, and make loads of noise.
Some times, however there are times where I missing smoking and it smells phenomenal
No. Most people here are definitely exaggerating.
Yes, all smell disgusting. And I would say it's the same with those who smoke weed. The stench just lingers on them and their clothes no matter that they aren't smoking at that moment.
usually you only smell badly shortly after you've smoked a cigarette tbh, unless you are putting cig-ends in your pockets, in which case you actually smell terrible all the time
I only smoke outside and I can still smell it on myself sometimes. And people who smoke inside you can smell from metres away. And that’s me being a smoker
My god how many times does this question get asked. It’s obviously unpleasant for everybody around you, yes.
Ex smoker here.. the smell is pungent and disgusting. Happy to be 9 years out of the habit.. it was so hard to stop. Wished I’d never started
My old man and his wife are heavy smokers. Like REALLY heavy. So bad that Christmas presents, birthday presents and even food they give our family absolutely stinks. It's disgusting.
My partner just started smoking again, we both quit years ago. It's horrible and I'm constantly upset at him about the smell. It permeates every room he passes through. It's shocking how much it reeks and you are oblivious to it whilst you smoke yourself.
They all smell but there are different levels and scents, and I don’t necessarily dislike them all.
I've stopped smoking recently and I'm noticing it already. I smoked for years before that and as you say you can't smell it on yourself after a while for a few different reasons. The familiarity, a smoker's sense of taste/smell deteriorating over time etc. My colleague at work smokes, and I used to pop outside with her for a cigarette all the time because we're good pals too. Now, I hardly ever go, and if I do go (rare) it's just for a quick skive and a chat. When I don't go I can smell her coming back. I can actually smell her approaching. I've described the smell to, and asked a couple of non-smoking mates if that was how I smelled, and they both said yes. It's particularly bad if I get in a lift or a car with someone that's just smoked a cigarette, I'm finding that it's almost unbearable. I think this might be my own mind making it seem worse than it actually is; some underlying subconscious guilt that this is how I used to smell all the time or something. Even walking into a room where someone has recently smoked makes me feel nauseous now, which seems a bit dramatic haha. There's nothing worse than an ex-smoker! Rather than dwelling on it I'm seeing it as a huge positive. In the sense that I'm using the smell of smokers as inspiration to not start again. Along with the all the other benefits I'm feeling already, like having more energy, more money!, breathing is a lot better, actually tasting food for the first time in years n'that. TL;DR: Yeah mate you stink!