Smoking or No Smoking in homes (yours and others) (location, places, commercial)

[lionking]

I smoke almost a pack a day,and after getting my house ready to sell,I'll never smoke in my place again.When you strat moving pictures,curtains and stuff you really see what smoke does.And,if selling your house not a good idea to smoke in it anyway.(strat) lol spelled that wrong,strats are always on my mind..meant to say start.

Speaking of that though,my strats and other guitars are better off without having smoke on them,easier to keep clean.

[Torn2pieces]

NO smoking in my house.

I hate the smell of smoke- PU

[BlueSkyHoliday]

Originally Posted by lionking

I smoke almost a pack a day,and after getting my house ready to sell,I'll never smoke in my place again.

When we were last house-hunting, there were about half-dozen homes that we immediately crossed off our list because the cigarette smell was so obvious, we knew we would have to
(a) rip up all the carpeting
(b) replace most of the drywall (painting over it will not 'seal in' years of smoke smell)
(c) replace the entire forced air heating/cooling system
(d) tear out all the tiles walls and floors, because the smell permeates the grout
in order to completely get rid of the smell -- and that would have been just too much work and expense.

People think that tiled bathrooms are easy to clean the stains from, but don't realize that the odor permeates the (porous) grout and is impossible to totally remove. Run a tub full of hot water in a bathroom that is used by a smoker and you will literally gag on the 'fumes'.

Our current house was built by a doctor whose children also had asthma -- so no pets or smoking was ever allowed here. We bought from him, so are the second owners. When we sell this house we are going to make sure the words "SMOKE-FREE, PET-FREE" feature prominently in all the marketing!

[foma]

I chose the first one but i would have to preface it by adding: I would go into a smoker's house only if I really had to. Other than the fact that I don't really drink, I also stopped going to bars/clubs b'c of the smoke. Can't stand it.

[AksarbeN]

My wife and I stopped going because of the same thing “smoke”. Now that there is a smoking ban ~ we both enjoy going out and having a few drinks in the bars. It’s so much better without the smell of the cigarettes. When we leave our clothing doesn’t have the smell left in it when we get home. We use to have to wash clothing the next day to get the stink of the cigarettes out.

[Castaway]

Originally Posted by BlueSkyHoliday

I completely agree.

States that DO ALLOW smoking in a child care facility: Kentucky, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina (where so many people with families are moving to! Do they even know this??), Pennsylvania, and Wyoming.

Not surprisingly, all of those states (and many others, sadly) are graded F on Smokefree Air laws in general.

New Mexico is SMOKE-FREE. Your information is incorrect. There has not been any smoking allowed in child care facilities in years.

[christina0001]

My husband and I (non-smokers) do not allow smoking in our home. Most of our relatives smoke and when they visit, we ask them to go outside to smoke. We've noticed our family only visits during the warmer months.
We do visit people who smoke in their homes. If we didn't, we would never see our family. We hate it though; the smell is terrible, it's unhealthy, and when we get home we smell and our clothes smell.
The only person I've allowed to smoke in my car is my father. Even though I am a married woman, I just can't bring myself to ask him not to.
We are concerned about how to deal with it when I am pregnant and when we have children. However I don't think that we spend enough time in the homes of smokers for this to be a really huge concern.

[115db]

I dont smoke and dont go into a house where people smoke in that house. An outdoor smoker is one thing, at least the house doesnt carry that lingering smell.

[AksarbeN]

Originally Posted by Castaway

New Mexico is SMOKE-FREE. Your information is incorrect. There has not been any smoking allowed in child care facilities in years.

The information was collected for the 2006 year. The new 2007 laws and changes had not be added yet to the link that was posted.

[brokencrayola]

We do not allow anyone to smoke in our home or cars. Both my husband and myself used to smoke many years ago before we met each other. Our children have never been around cigarette smoke at all as we do not even know anyone that smokes.