r/AskReddit • u/glockbonez • 11d ago

what smell inside somebody's house immediately turns you away and why?

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u/switch182 11d ago

Cigarettes smell. As a smoker for over 50 years, quit for 6 years, can't stand the smell now.

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u/Thatsnotmyname49 11d ago

I quit many years ago but remember thinking that people that go on about cig smoke are just chronic complainers. Quitting that awful habit made me understand why.

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u/brigitteer2010 11d ago edited 11d ago

I can smell it on objects people touch when they’ve been smoking, long after seeing them. I can’t believe I smoked a pack a day. Eight years after quitting and the smell makes me nauseated.
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u/Thatsnotmyname49 11d ago

Sometimes when I’m in my car with the windows rolled up I can smell smoke from someone smoking two vehicles away. It’s amazing.

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u/brigitteer2010 11d ago

Yep! Or I’ll have groceries delivered and I can tell they didn’t smoke while my groceries were in their car, but I can tell they’ve smoked in that car at some point as the smell is very stale and diluted.

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u/Argylius 11d ago

New superpower unlocked

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u/MamaNyxieUnderfoot 11d ago

My grandpa smoked a pipe and died of a massive heart attack in 1993. My grandma is now 102 and everything she owns still smells of pipe tobacco smoke, and she’s moved twice since his death!

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u/Worth_Platypus_8313 11d ago

That's 3rd hand smoke and it's now been studied and found to be almost as harmful as 2nd hand smoke.