Approx 1200 Sq ft, need a filter to take care of cigarette smoke odor. Thanks
Electrostatic air cleaner Here’s an example
I used to have one, but not this one, a while back and it worked well.
When I was sharing an apartment with a few people in college, my bedroom became the ‘smoking room’. I had (well, I still have it somewhere) a decent sized HEPA air filter with a charcoal prefilter. As long as it was running while people were smoking, the room never really smelled like smoke. If even one or two cigarettes were smoked in my room without it on (like, if I wasn’t home), I could still smell it in there hours later.
However, that’s for people actively smoking. If this is a room that was previously smoked in, it’s going to need to be cleaned. Any cloth furniture should be cleaned (take covers off and wash them or maybe use the hand attachment for a Bissel). Clean the carpets. Clean every surface of everything in the room. And lastly, if you can, paint the room (walls and ceiling), if you can’t paint, at least see what you can do about cleaning the walls and ceiling.
Alternatively, if you do nothing at all, it’ll dissipate, but it’s going to take a long time. The more in needs to not smell like smoke (and the more it was smoked in to begin with) the longer it’s going to take.
TLDR: remove actual smoke, get a good air filter. Remove smoke smell, clean. Lots of cleaning.
One other thing, and this may not be a workable answer, but a window fan (box fan in the window or a fan meant for a window) will make a world of difference. One of the people in my (non-smoking) dorms had one running 24/7 and I’ll bet between them and all their friends, multiple packs of cigarettes were smoked in that tiny room every day. The room didn’t really smell like smoke and you couldn’t even smell it in the hallway (the trick was NOT putting a towel under the door, that way fresh air could get in).
I read the OP as pertaining to removing smoke from active smoking. If that’s not the case, ignore my advice.
Yes, active smoking.
In the above post where I mentioned several people using my bedroom as the ‘smoking room’, I had this identical filter (except this is just the updated model, mine is 20 years old, but looks like it would use the exact same filters).
Like I said, it always worked well.
Granted, I might not have been the best judge of it and I know a lot of my belongs certainly still smelled when I moved out (like, even my computer keyboard), but overall it certainly made a world of difference.
For something that size you are going to need a commercial unit, something along the line of a Smokemaster; you’re talking serious money.
Things like that Honeywell unit are only listed for 250 sq ft – and it won’t actually remove smoke anyway.
Even high-end air purifiers like Austin Air or Blueair Pro XL aren’t really going to do what you want.
A window fan set exhaust will help a lot.
I think I’ve seen some ceiling mounted smoke reduction devices in bars. Since smoking indoors hasn’t been allowed in a long time, maybe OP could make an offer and get a deal.
If you live in a non-smoking building, and want to smoke in your apartment, be careful. My landlord evicts people who get caught smoking, and if there has been a complaint from another tenant, they go hunting for people breaking the no smoking rule. I’ve seen people move in, bring in a filter and fans, and still move out in just a couple of months.
It could be for non-payment, but they’re not supposed to be evicting for non-payment right now, and I seriously doubt someone voluntarily goes to the trouble and expense of moving in, just to do it again in three months. At any rate, according to notes left on my door, they can still evict for lease violations, and our leases say “no smoking in units.” (No, I don’t smoke, but when there’s been a complaint, the same note gets left on every unit.)