re: #504 lifeofthemind

Belmont Club has a thread on this.

The smell is what this is all about. I like it, I know others don’t. Tough shit. I’ll keep my smoke away from people, but they will have to deal with the smell, just as I have to deal with the smell of coconut oil on hair, perfumes, body washes, colognes, aftershaves, etc all of which bother me. But do I complain? Hell do. Do you hear me complaining? Never. Morons bother me too. But the waiter always manages to sit me next to a table full of them. ;-)>

Third-hand smoke is what one smells when a smoker gets in an elevator after going outside for a cigarette, he said, or in a hotel room where people were smoking. “Your nose isn’t lying,” he said. “The stuff is so toxic that your brain is telling you: ’Get away.’” …