I don’t smoke that often these days, but I’ll smoke in my house if I fancy it. At least one of my housemates does regularly, as do several friends of mine when they come over.
I grew up with my dad smoking inside. I started smoking inside, at my parents’ house and then at my own house. My brother smoked at my parents’ house but when he moved out, he and his girlfriend-now-wife only smoked outside.
In the past 5 years I’d say I only knew 6 people who smoked.
Me - in the house
Dad - in the house
Ex boyfriend - in the house
Cousin & Aunt - in the house
Brother & SIL - not in the house
Aunt & uncle - not in the house
I’ve quit and finally after all these years I feel horrible for my non-smoking mom who has to live with the ruining of her house…yech…
We visited my sister in law in Alberta for a week in October and we were invited to a party at one of her friend’s house. About thirty people there including a few small kids. At least 10 people smoking. It was like I had travelled in a time machine back to the 70s except for the fact that it was all I could do to keep from retching.
I quit smoking a year ago, for good this time, but I hadn’t smoked indoors for years.
I know a ton of people who smoke weed in the house.
But I hardly know anyone who smokes cigarettes at all. I can’t think of one off the top of my head, although several who used to, and maybe half of them smoked in the house. Gross.
The poll doesn’t really work, because it depends on the number of smokers you know. Better options would be percentages, as in few (less than 10%), from 10% to 50%, etc.
I don’t have friends who smoke, but my future in-laws do. They all smoke indoors, and I hate it. I hate being asked “Does this bother you?” after the cigarette is lit, too. Seriously, am I going to say yes at that point in your house? I was raised better.
Maybe your future spouse could privately mention to them that you’re sensitive to smoke, or something? But yeah, if you feel like you’re the only one in the group bothered by it, that’s a hard situation. It seems SO rude to put someone in that position, but I guess some people really don’t realize how much being around smoke bothers some people, and that we’re not just being picky and petty.
Ditto.
sequential threads -
“are there evil people?”
“how many people do you know who smoke in the house?”
I smoke in the house.
But then, I’m evil. Next I intend to eat your children…
Oh yes, I think you were right. My friend bought her place as a fix-up project and happens to be the Superwoman of this sort of thing, so the prospect of replacing walls of insulation and stucco doesn’t faze her. I wouldn’t take it on.
My partner and I both smoke in our house as do most of our friends that smoke. I don’t smoke in someone else’s house unless they say it’s ok or they light up first.
When I smoked I smoked in the house but only smoked upstairs in the kitchen when it was warm enough to run an exhaust fan in the window. When it was too cold, I smoked in the basement, in the furnace room, where the furnace vent sucked out the smoke. It wasn’t totally oder free but not too bad.
I smoke very little (less than a pack a week, and I’m quitting), but our house already has extensive smoke damage from when my SO’s mother lived here. So I do sometimes smoke indoors, because I figure the damage is already done. However, once we get the vents cleaned, I will stop. Or, you know, sooner, if I actually quit.
I don’t smoke, but both of my parents do, as does my adult sister, who currently lives with them. All three of them smoke in the house, and have for decades. Beyond them, the only smokers I know at all well have been a few people with whom I used to work at an ad agency, but I never visited any of them in their homes, and so I have no idea if they smoked in the house.
My wife and I just got back from visiting them for several days for Christmas. I always develop a stuffed-up head while I’m there, due to the smoke, and find it hard to go running while I’m there, as I feel short of breath. And, when we get home, the first thing we do is to throw all of our clothes in the wash, due to the lingering smell of smoke.
I do imagine that, when they decide to sell the house (they’ve lived in it for 37 years now), it’ll be a major job to clean it.
Everyone I know smokes in their own house. When I was a smoker I smoked in mine too. Now I have a roommate who smokes in the house but I ask him to keep his door closed because I don’t like the smell anymore at all.
I just realized that I don’t socialize with anyone who smokes. I have acquaintances who smoke, but nobody whose home I visit with any regularity. I also live in one of the least smoky states, in probably one of the least smoky cities in it. Tobacco only considered.
I am a smoker and I NEVER smoke inside the house. I smoke in the mudroom. Gets a bit cold in the winter in the U.P., but I wouldn;t dream of stinkin up my house. I do plan on quitting here in the next few months,though!
Same here. I thought about it and realized that I don’t know any living smokers well enough to know if they smoke in their house or not.
All of my relatives who smoked (most of them) are dead, and all smoked in the house though.
I smoke in the living room only, with either a window open or an air purifier going. It annoys the hell out of me when my b-i-l comes over and lights up in the kitchen.
When we have people over I will go out into the breezeway or outside. I won’t light up at someone else’s house unless they say it’s okay, or if they light up first. Even if they do light up first, I’ll ask if it’s okay - it does get miserable to have multiple people clouding the air.
And I try to clean my walls at least 2x/year with tsp or bleach.
I smoke in my house - sort of.
I have a secret room at the top of the house, (a concealed entrance, to an adjunct, to what is actually, attic space), it has a couple of small windows and a space heater, (couple of chairs some trunks) as it’s really only for use in winter and bad weather. If it’s nice I just smoke on the back patio. But it’s nice to have a dedicated indoor space when it’s raining or snowing!
Interesting results; I kind of thought the indoor smoking would be less than it is.