# Smokers stink. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 26, 2010, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-stink/537378 "2010-04-26T05:04:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-stink/537378/1 "2010-04-26T05:04:28Z")
Not a moral judgment, just a statement of fact. If you smoke regularly the stench of cigarette smoke sticks to your clothing. Your hair. Your breath reeks of it regardless of how often you brush your teeth or how many mints you suck on. So don’t be surprised when I try my best to move any conversation with you out of my office: a) Close confines concentrates the smell. b) The odor of tobacco lingers way after you’ve left. So…hows about we move our discussion to the conference room? Or, even better, how about we sit on a bench in the courtyard? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-stink/537378/2 "2010-04-26T05:12:38Z")
One aspect of stricter smoking laws in the last few years is that when a smoker comes inside after his nic-fix, the reek of his clothing is especially sudden and intrusive and unpleasant. I guess ten or fifteen years back I was constantly surrounded and became desensitized, much like the smokers themselves. ---
**Author:** ![ivn1188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e480ec/32.png) [@ivn1188](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivn1188)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-stink/537378/3 "2010-04-26T05:16:43Z")
So… how’s about you quit whining like a little bitch? I’m sure no one wants to look at your ugly face or listen to your advice on how to beat the cancer or smell your disgusting cologne or watch your fat rolls jiggle as you hobble to the elevator to go up one floor, or deal with whatever other annoying habit you no doubt have. Quit being a hypersensitive git and move on, or grow a set and tell the person who smokes instead of getting on the internet and posting about it, looking for validation. Dipshit. ---
**Author:** ![simple\_homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@simple\_homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simple_homer)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-stink/537378/4 "2010-04-26T05:20:10Z")
> [@ivn1188](#): > > So… how’s about you quit whining like a little bitch? I’m sure no one wants to look at your ugly face or listen to your advice on how to beat the cancer or smell your disgusting cologne or watch your fat rolls jiggle as you hobble to the elevator to go up one floor, or deal with whatever other annoying habit you no doubt have. > > Quit being a hypersensitive git and move on, or grow a set and tell the person who smokes instead of getting on the internet and posting about it, looking for validation. > > Dipshit. Nic fit ? ---
**Author:** ![ivn1188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e480ec/32.png) [@ivn1188](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivn1188)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-stink/537378/5 "2010-04-26T05:26:17Z")
> [@simple\_homer](#): > > Nic fit ? No, just tired of passive agressive retards hopping on the internet to bitch about someone smelling like smoke. If this is the sort of thing that motivates you to log on to a message board and post about it, you need to read some fucking current events or something. And to cut the next few whiners off at the pass: Yes, I’m an asshole. I don’t give a shit. If all you can do is cry about me being a big old meaning, then save us all some time and just shut the fuck up. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-stink/537378/6 "2010-04-26T05:34:39Z")
> [@ivn1188](#): > > No, just tired of passive agressive retards hopping on the internet to bitch Aren’t we all? ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-stink/537378/7 "2010-04-26T05:40:22Z")
> [@ivn1188](#): > > No, just tired of passive agressive retards hopping on the internet to bitch about someone smelling like smoke. If this is the sort of thing that motivates you to log on to a message board and post about it, you need to read some fucking current events or something. What if they post their issues in MPSIMS, oh Pit-Cop? ---
**Author:** ![statsman1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@statsman1982](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statsman1982)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-stink/537378/8 "2010-04-26T05:56:11Z")
> [@ivn1188](#): > > Quit being a hypersensitive git and move on… > > Dipshit. Pot? Kettle? ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-stink/537378/9 "2010-04-26T06:14:51Z")
Our clients bring in stacks and stacks of files into our office on a regular basis and I cringe when one hands me a stack of brittle, yellow papers. Those fuckers stink up our ENTIRE filing room. If that one stack can make our filing room smell SO BAD, I don’t even want to imagine what their homes smell like. Thank God for Fabreeze. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-stink/537378/10 "2010-04-26T06:32:56Z")
Earlier today, in a different thread I jokingly posted “this won’t end well”, well now I mean it sincerely. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-stink/537378/11 "2010-04-26T06:34:40Z")
> [@ivn1188](#): > > No, just tired of passive agressive retards hopping on the internet to bitch about someone smelling like smoke. If this is the sort of thing that motivates you to log on to a message board and post about it, you need to read some fucking current events or something. > And to cut the next few whiners off at the pass: Yes, I’m an asshole. I don’t give a shit. If all you can do is cry about me being a big old meaning, then save us all some time and just shut the fuck up. I like how you opened the thread just to get annoyed. It’s like hanging around someone’s asshole waiting for them to fart. ---
**Author:** ![Obsidian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/51bf81/32.png) [@Obsidian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obsidian)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-stink/537378/12 "2010-04-26T06:37:53Z")
I worked with a bunch of smokers, and it was funny. . . some smelled a lot, some a little, some not at all. I wonder if it matters where they smoke, how much, or the brand of cigarettes. Some do seem to be worse than others. ---
**Author:** ![ivn1188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e480ec/32.png) [@ivn1188](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivn1188)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-stink/537378/13 "2010-04-26T07:04:09Z")
Wow, my post sure brought out all the mental deficients. Look at 'em gabber uselessly trying to get some sort of shot in. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-stink/537378/14 "2010-04-26T07:21:20Z")
Well, I meant my comment in a more productive way, why not try to report the post and send it off to MPSIMS? I think if we didn’t have the language from that one post, this thread easily could have been moved, as it REALLY is a mild “rant”. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-stink/537378/15 "2010-04-26T07:33:11Z")
> [@ivn1188](#): > > No, just tired of passive agressive retards hopping on the internet to bitch about someone smelling like smoke. If this is the sort of thing that motivates you to log on to a message board and post about it, you need to read some fucking current events or something. > And to cut the next few whiners off at the pass: Yes, I’m an asshole. I don’t give a shit. If all you can do is cry about me being a big old meaning, then save us all some time and just shut the fuck up. At times like this I just ask myself, “What Would Super Kapowzler Do?” I’ve even got a bracelet with those initials and shit. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-stink/537378/16 "2010-04-26T07:37:41Z")
> [@Obsidian](#): > > I worked with a bunch of smokers, and it was funny. . . some smelled a lot, some a little, some not at all. I wonder if it matters where they smoke, how much, or the brand of cigarettes. Some do seem to be worse than others. It makes a big difference if people wash their hands and face after smoking. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-stink/537378/17 "2010-04-26T07:40:09Z")
> [@DanBlather](#): > > It makes a big difference if people wash their hands and face after smoking. …and shit. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-stink/537378/18 "2010-04-26T08:17:40Z")
> [@RedFury](#): > > …and shit. What if they don’t have to? Should they time their cigarette breaks to their bowel schedule? But then what if they’re not in a convenient place to do both? What happens then? I suppose they’d have to choose, and then be relegated to either stinking like smoke or exploding from a bowel obstruction, neither of which is healthy and both of which would probably get them pitted.. And god help them if they don’t wash their hands after they shit.. that’s a whole 'nother thread.. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-stink/537378/19 "2010-04-26T08:55:40Z")
Thanks for the info I’ll smell you later I drive a Chevrolet movie theater ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-stink/537378/20 "2010-04-26T09:06:18Z")
Here’s an idea for those upset by tobacco smoke - put plugs up your nostrils and keep your gob shut. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-stink/537378.md?page=2)