a smoke free home...what is it?

Question

me and my sister in law were disagreeing about a topic so i thought id put it up here..

when you get ready to sell somthing you know how people say comes from a smoke free home..
she was saying i couldnt post stuff as being a smoke free home..
my husband smokes he is the only smoker..but he smokes out side..every time..never inside..
so is my house a smoke free home or not?????

Answer 1

I had a workman come to my house today that reeked of cigarettes. By the logic I have read above, the minute he entered my home it was no longer a smoke free home.

I don't buy it. After he was gone, the smell was gone too. He smoked a few cigarettes outside, disposed of the butts somewhere (not in my yard at least), entered my house a dozen times, left the house. Is my houe suddenly not a smoke free home? NO.

People can smoke outside all they want in my yard. We don't smoke, but if they are craving that nicotine, fine, brave the elements and go light up outside. Yeah, sometimes when they come back in, they smell ... but that doesn't make my house stink forever. Nor do my sofas or my carpets end up reeking like smoke if they decide to sit down on my sofa or walk on my carpet. My painted walls don't smell and neither do my curtains. I have to say, my house smells just fine, thank you.

Sheesh.

Answer 2

Technically it is a smoke free home, But to a non-smoker it will smell like smoke. My wife and I don't smoke in our house, but non-smokers can smell the smoke on us, furniture, etc. If I were you I wouldn't say anything about smoking until someone asks. Then tell them the situation and let them decide. By the way...I have never seen an ad like that...you must be on the west coast, which means it's headed this way soon, it's amazing the way stuff starts on the west coast and then is adopted on the east (sometimes I wish it didn't take so long though).

Answer 3

Yes. You have never had cigarette smoke inside your home. What it does is it makes the walls yellow and the smell gets into the walls and carpets and ceilings and makes everything ashy, filthy, smelly and dirty. Smoking outside does not do this.

My hubby is the same--he smokes outside. It is not dirty and smelly and all in here but I have seen houses that are b/c of inside smoking. So yes, you have a smoke-free home.

Answer 4

when someone smokes in the house on a regular basis..... the walls, the ceiling & curtains yellow, from all the nicotine in the smoke of the cigarettes. all the cloth in the house smells like cigarettes. it's nearly impossible to get the smell out of the fabrics in the house... even years later, after having furniture relocated in a new house... you can still smell it on the furniture. now- getting the nicotine stains off the walls & ceiling is a very daunting task. you have to use ammonia to cut the nicotine oil from all the dirt that has collected on the sticky surface. then use bleach and soap three times to get all of it off! plus it gets all your clothes stinky in the process... yuck. so... if you take a white glove and run a gloved finger along the wall closest to the ceiling and it comes back with even a hint of yellow........ your husband, or others, have been smoking in the house and you do not, now, have a smoke free home.

Answer 5

I'd say it is, I don't think the items kept in the house will smell just because a smoker person hangs out in the same room, when he doesn't ever light a cigarette there. If you're selling any of his personal stuff second-hand, though, it will probably smell of smoke because he's worn/carried it on his smoking trips.

Answer 6

Does the stuff smell like smoke to a nonsmoker? That would be the deciding factor to me. I'm a smoker, so if you're getting ready to sell a pair of ladies size 8 black combat boots - I don't care if they smell like smoke or not. I want them to come from a fungus free home.

~Morg~

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Technically, Yes. But...

However, if you are selling his lazy-boy chair which he sits in everyday, you might have some explaining to do. Be realistic, and don't be a scammer. If it's stinky than you shouldn't advertise as smoke-free.

It depends on what you are selling, to me. It wouldn't matter to me, if a book or a stereo came from a smoking household.

Answer 9

I would say your home is smoke free..We are like that at home..no one smokes in the house..no exceptions smoke out on the patio even if its 9 below ...just smoke faster.It stinks so much in a smokers home.It ruins the paint,carpets and dirties the windows.I know because when we left our rental home and I did the cleanup..I coulnt believe it...yuchk

Answer 10

If there is smoking anywhere on the premises, including the yard, it is NOT technically "smoke-free". Non-Smokers can pick up on that scent from a mile away. It permeates belongings if it even contacts a smoker's body. Sorry.