# Cigarettes smell funny

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarettes-smell-funny/371729>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 7, 2006, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarettes-smell-funny/371729 "2006-09-07T01:12:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarettes-smell-funny/371729/21 "2006-09-08T00:38:03Z")

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Cigarette smoke didn’t start smelling bad to me until probably 4 years after I quit. But it does now.  
What smelled bad to me right away as soon as my sense of smell returned was my kitty’s breath!!! I had no idea it stunk so much!

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**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarettes-smell-funny/371729/22 "2006-09-08T00:46:50Z")

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I’ve been inhaling my mother’s secondhand smoke for years, and I hate how the smell gets into all my clothes. I’ll do laundry, put stuff in my closet, then when I get something out the next day it’ll smell like smoke. I’ll only notice it once I’m out of the house for a while, though. The worst is when I go on vacation and I’ve packed all my clean clothes (or so you’d think) in my suitcase, only to get to my destination, open up the suitcase, and wish I could wash them again. Sometimes, actually, I do.

But the first thing I thought of when I read the thread title was how every now and then, one of my mom’s cigatettes will smell faintly of pot. Not all the time - it’s maybe one out of every pack or so - but it’s enough that we’ve both noticed it. Think maybe the tobacco people figure the smokers aren’t addicted enough yet and now they’re adding the odd pot-laced bonus cigarette to their packs of smokes?

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarettes-smell-funny/371729/23 "2006-09-08T01:15:18Z")

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[QUOTE=Antigen]  
one of my mom’s cigatettes will smell faintly of pot.  
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It’s an impurity of some sort. Burning bamboo leaves smell like dope. Bugs, trash and stuff get into the mix.

I regret that I can no longer eat hot and sour soup with the wild abandon of my smoking days. 🙂

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