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I bought a house that had been badly smoked in. Washing everything, all soft furnishings removed and tossed out, new flooring, new paint, ducts all cleaned, and still the smell wouldn't go away until I scrubbed out the inside of all the cabinets and pulled out the fridge and stove and washed the backs of those.
Just to make a point about why so many landlords do not allow smoking. Its very time consuming and expensive to get rid of smoke smell and the nicotine that is coating everything. On my smoker's house, the people cleaning the nicotine off the walls all got sick from the nicotine exposure. Smoking is not "no big deal".