# Do you let people smoke in your home? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 20, 2014, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-let-people-smoke-in-your-home/686535 "2014-04-20T09:50:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-let-people-smoke-in-your-home/686535/81 "2014-04-21T17:18:09Z")
> [@Claverhouse](#): > > True ( although there’s no need to let _them_ know that ). Still, in the end anti-smoking like most other puritanisms are localized cabbage-patch-doll issues: nature reasserts itself, and in a 100 years people will just consider it one of those quaint obsessions that agitated the ancients, as we do with plenty of Victorian obsessions. Let’s hope ! – example, the much-cited Victorian thing of paper-or-fabric coverings-up of piano legs, for fear of male base passions being excited (the human mind is so good at the associating thing, that doing so would likely excite more base passions, than it prevented). > [@even\_sven](#): > > Oddly, when I loved in China, I would let my friends light up indoors. I guess indoor smoking is so common there it didn’t bug me, and it’s not really a place to get too picky about air quality. 20-odd years ago, I spent a three-week holiday in China with a rabidly-anti-smoking friend. Those sentiments of his gave a dimension of difficulty to the holiday, which I for one could have done without. As time went on, work-arounds were found; but, China should certainly bear a warning addressed to militant haters of smoking… > [@Urbanredneck](#): > > Some companies have gone so far as to not allow smoking anywhere on their property even in the parking lot so for an employee to smoke they have to go completely off site. > > **Which then has created a clique issue where the smokers will bond together.** With the furious hatred which smokers get, from many who do not engage in their habit – I find the clique / bonding-together thing on their part, understandable, and not something that I’m about to censure. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-let-people-smoke-in-your-home/686535/82 "2014-04-21T17:36:00Z")
> [@Claverhouse](#): > > I’m certainly not justifying smoking by saying drink or drugs are worse, or any other thing is worse; merely pointing out that the smell of beer affects _me_ worse than smoke does a non-smoker but I roll with it because other people have their superior rights — and if they want to drink or shoot up that’s up to them. So, the smell of beer causes your lungs to go into spasm, you start seeing black spots in your vision due to lack of oxygen, and you feel like you’re slowly being strangled? Does it require you to use prescription medications just to avoid a trip to the ER? If the answer is “no” then no, you are NOT as adversely affected by beer as someone with a respiratory problem like asthma is affected by cigarette smoke. But hey, your desire to court emphysema and lung cancer is clearly more important than the health of the other people around you. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-let-people-smoke-in-your-home/686535/83 "2014-04-21T17:45:47Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > I’m not super fond of the smell of beer either, and of course the social impact of alcohol is far worse than than of tobacco… but it’s not a remotely comparable thing when we’re talking about **smell.** Beer doesn’t release a huge amount of particulate into the air. If someone sits in a room a drinks some beer and then leaves, without minutes you’ll never know they were there unless they spill the beer all over the place - but the smell of smoking persists for a long time. Then as a small child you never reeled back aghast when passing a British pub on a warm day. Different now — _eheu fugaces_, one of my older [alcoholic] relations started drinking in 1940 in pubs when he was about 12, and he said there was _sawdust_ on the floor, which I assumed was a legend — pubs have become clean cafes, although they can be a bit rough in Scotland. Then again, maybe American beer is so cold it doesn’t smell of anything. Still the smell makes _me_ sick. ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-let-people-smoke-in-your-home/686535/84 "2014-04-21T17:49:26Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > So, the smell of beer causes your lungs to go into spasm, you start seeing black spots in your vision due to lack of oxygen, and you feel like you’re slowly being strangled? Does it require you to use prescription medications just to avoid a trip to the ER? No, and I have never met anyone _like_ that: we are hardy folk, we of the north. > [@](#): > > But hey, your desire to court emphysema and lung cancer is clearly more important than the health of the other people around you. :rolleyes: I’ll risk it. And I don’t smoke where others aren’t smoking. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-let-people-smoke-in-your-home/686535/85 "2014-04-21T18:05:26Z")
Nope. The question has never come up, because the very few visitors to my house who smoked, automatically headed outside to smoke. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-let-people-smoke-in-your-home/686535/86 "2014-04-21T18:41:08Z")
We both smoke, so it wouldn’t bother me at all. I don’t smoke in other peoples homes unless they say it’s ok or they are doing it themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-let-people-smoke-in-your-home/686535/87 "2014-04-21T19:35:57Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > Outside on the back patio? Sure, no problem. I also keep a couch in the garage for when it’s too cold to smoke outside. > > I guess it helps that I used to be a smoker. This. Ex-smoker here, too. Well - no couch. Didn’t see that part. There’s patio furniture and an ashtray handy for them. That’s as far as I’m going, good hostess be damned. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-let-people-smoke-in-your-home/686535/88 "2014-04-21T19:58:13Z")
I _am_ a smoker and don’t even allow smoking in my own house. Even when the weather is bad, I’m still out there on my porch. It gets in and on _everyt_hing. I inherited a really great antique couch from my neighbors who both smoke in the house. I don’t think they realize it gets in the walls and insulation and carpet padding – everything gets permeated with the stench of stale old smoke. I think it kills the resale value of your house, so I decided not to ever have smoking inside when I bought my house. Now I just do battle trying to get the smoke stench out of the couch. The dog wouldn’t even sit on it for a week or two until I’d done some major de-smoke-ification. (Activated charcoal, in a paper bag, stapled underneath, where the springs are.) I would be _horrified_ if someone offered to let me smoke inside their house. “Erm. No thanks, I’ll just step outside.” And yes, I am well aware of the off-gassing of smoke odors. I try to stay outside a few minutes at work to let the residual blow off, then I immediately spray down with Febreze and the most important step – I wash my hands. We carry so much stink on our hands and don’t realize it. I can’t even stand the smell of smoke on my own hands, so I take steps. And I’ve had people – like my dental hygienist – be surprised when I told them I smoked. “Oh really? I never smell it on you.” That’s because I am super conscious of it and try to mitigate as much as possible. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-let-people-smoke-in-your-home/686535/89 "2014-04-21T20:30:26Z")
Nope. I have a very nice back yard. Please smoke out there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-let-people-smoke-in-your-home/686535.md?page=4)