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Pretty stupid question really, but I decided to see if I really am alone in the world. I actually like the smell (whether from cigarettes, cigars, or pipe tobacco) and find it somewhat refreshing. The odd part is, I don't smoke very much (an estimate of about a pack a year feels high) and never was a heavy smoker.
So, do you like tobacco smoke? Would you get an Ashtray brand air-freshener?

Yea it's nice. Until it goes stale.

Ugh. It makes me sick to my stomach.

Heck no! I can't stand the stuff! (I actually feel sick and get headaches from it.)

Ashtray smell, no. I smoke cigars, so yeah I like that. I used to smoke a pipe and dug that too.

Hell yeah.

*lights another cigarette*

I hate the smell of tobacco smoke.

I smoke and don't particularly care for the smell.

Hell yes! Love the smell.

I like the smell of pipes, but not cigarettes or cigars

pipes and cigars smell great. cigarettes, not so much, unless they're a decent brand (IE nothing a college student would be smoking)

nope. Can't help but cough everytime someone smokes near me.

i love the smell of tobacco, whether its in a cigarette or hanging in a barn.

im not fond of the smell of cigarette smoke but there are certain pipe tobaccos and cigars that smell wonderful

whiskey, gun oil, cigar smoke, and leaded gasoline all smell wonderful to me.

Pipes are alright if the smoke doesn't fill the room.

whiskey, gun oil, cigar smoke, and leaded gasoline all smell wonderful to me.

You just described my breath. I think I'm in love.

It makes me feel ill and immediately makes my throat hurt and eyes burn, so hell yeah! blow some of that in my face will ya?

I used to be a heavy smoker (almost two packs a day).

I prefer smoking it over smelling it.

You just described my breath. I think I'm in love.
lol

leaded gasoline is bad for you. you might consider switching to unleaded.

although unleaded smells skunky

Pretty stupid question really, but I decided to see if I really am alone in the world. I actually like the smell (whether from cigarettes, cigars, or pipe tobacco) and find it somewhat refreshing. The odd part is, I don't smoke very much (an estimate of about a pack a year feels high) and never was a heavy smoker.
So, do you like tobacco smoke? Would you get an Ashtray brand air-freshener?
not cigarettes, no, but other tobacco smoke can smell really nice (especially flavoured shisha!)


edit: the smell of a joint will always prick my ears up...

edit: the smell of a joint will always prick my ears up...
Such an interesting biology you seem to have developed. You really must donate those magnificently multifaceted aural lobes to science after you die.

not cigarettes, no, but other tobacco smoke can smell really nice (especially flavoured shisha!)


edit: the smell of a joint will always prick my ears up...
thank god I'm not the only one who does that...

Cigarettes are some of the foulest-smelling things on the planet. People who smoke cigarettes should be hit upside the head until they agree to either quit or smoke something else. Cigars are OK. Some cigars are OK. Pipes I don't know about.

I have been around some cigars that were God-awful. I have been around some that were OK. I have even smoked some in my time. Not too bad. But I support smoking bans, since I understand that many people are allergic to smoke.

I dont mind (excep in enclosed spaces such as a car or elevator)

*snorts at poll title*

Hate cigarette & cigar smoke; pipe tobacco can smell very nice, though.

Bleh, the stuff gives me a headache

Yes, whenever I smoke a cigarette I often spend time afterwards smelling my fingers.

Same with when I finger a girl, too.

*sniff* ahhhh.

I smoke a tobacco pipe about twice a week. I have to admit, though, I prefer the flavored blends, like black vanilla cavendish or sometimes cherry.

Not really. It doesn't make me feel ill, although I don't care for the smell and I prefer to avoid it if possible.

Although, I have a severe distaste for the breath and possessions of smokers, they smell horrible.

But I support smoking bans, since I understand that many people are allergic to smoke.

I'll admit right now i've never really looked for the peer reviewed academic journals that cover tobacco smoke allergy, but I cant help feeling that this is on a par with people who aren't comfortable around cliff edges saying they have vertigo. Not liking the smell/taste of something does not equate to being allergic to it.

also what non smokers fail to understand is that there are two types of smoke that come off a cigarette:
1. the stuff that curls off the end while it's sat in the ashtray.
2. the stuff the smoker gets when they inhale through the cigarette.

the difference occurs due to the availabilty of oxygen to the burning material caused by the smoker drawing air through the cigarette.

basically the stuff the actual smokers are getting is quite enjoyable once you acquire the taste, especially with a cool beer at the end of a hot day.
Few people enjoy the stench that comes off a poorly stubbed butt in an ashtray.

If it had nothing to offer, no-one would do it.

Stale tobacco/ashtray smell is prehaps the worst smell on the earth. Pipe tobacco is ok. Cigars...depends, but don't like most of them. Marijuana smells great. As do cloves. There's nothing better than having a nice clove after a bowl.

I smoke a tobacco pipe about twice a week. I have to admit, though, I prefer the flavored blends, like black vanilla cavendish or sometimes cherry.
cherry really just makes me think of old man (in the distinguished way, not the creepy way)

it really depends, cigarettes can sometimes smell good, depending on brand and quality, but only when they are burning fresh, once it is no longer burning fresh the smell that lingers is one i dont care so much for. i do like the smell of cigars, i dont think i have inhaled the smell of a cigar i did not like, same with pipes

I can’t stand the smell of cigarette smoke. I remember what the Wysterian board smelled like after Santa Barbara finished posting there after a few cigarettes. :) I make girlfriends who smoke, go outside to do it, even if it’s winter. Smoking has always been a bit of a turn off for me.

I used to smoke a pipe in the military, but it was really nice smelling tobacco (you wouldn’t believe how many young ladies like the smell of a pipe and tell you it reminds them of their grandfathers). I know that I’m responsible for a lot of young guys smoking pipes in the military now. I don’t take any responsibility for a friend of mine’s snuff habit though, that was his own damned fault. I don’t mind the smell of a nice cigar and I’ve smoked a few of them (cigars in metal cases travel better in your webbing in the field. Pipes get broken too easily).

Smoking has changed a lot in the military. When I started I was one of the few guys who didn’t smoke cigarettes all the time (nothing like being the only guy in the back of a truck not smoking). By the time I was getting out smokers were definitely in the minority and people took less kindly when people sparked up a ciggy in confined spaces. I still took care of my smokers in the military, making sure they identified themselves to me so I could ensure that they had their nicotine time in the field when the level of tactical alertness allowed for it. Some guys would wear the patch in the field and still smoke whenever they got a chance. The chronic smokers got a bit on the tetchy side if you didn’t try remind them of the brief windows they had for smoking. You wouldn’t believe how many of them had burn marks in their sleeping bags, because you couldn’t have your cigarette cherry give away your position.

The Bruce

kind of reminds me of a story a old man once told me

he was in the millitary and he was telling me that when he was in basic they would have to stand in formation, and after standing in formation after awhile they would allow a ciggarette break, but you had to be smoking on this break, if you werent smoking you were still standing at attention. so by the end of basic alot more people were now smokers

I find the smell of pipe tobacco particularly disgusting, followed by cigar smoke. So cloying, both of them. Of the three in my opinion cigarette smell is the least bad. I find the smell of unsmoked sticks far better than that of burnt. Given my tierd ranking of non-fondness, I went with the second option in the poll. Still, I would gladly pick the scent of freshly cut (lawn) grass or baking bread and pastry first.

That gets me thinking... In a while I will have to start a thread on favourite smells... Mmmm... Lawnmowings... Maybe Spring will not be so difficult to face after all (Although I will still miss skating)...

I remember one guy, I used to refer to as the eighth Dwarf “Surly” (he was a big guy but incredibly surly). This guy was a chronic smoker and the longer he was in the field the crankier he got. He was a good soldier with excellant skills, just not good humoured.

So when he was caught with a buddy in an OP in no mans land, between warring parties in former Yugoslavia, he got cut off from his own lines for two weeks. An Officer was allowed to go check on them, because they were on a UN mission and neutral. So when “Surly” sees a pack of cigarettes bulging in the officer’s pocket he says to him:

“Just so you know Sir, the only way you’re leaving this OP alive is without those cigarettes.”

The Officer wisely complied.

I remember one guy, I used to refer to as the eighth Dwarf “Surly” (he was a big guy but incredibly surly). This guy was a chronic smoker and the longer he was in the field the crankier he got. He was a good soldier with excellant skills, just not good humoured.

So when he was caught with a buddy in an OP in no mans land, between warring parties in former Yugoslavia, he got cut off from his own lines for two weeks. An Officer was allowed to go check on them, because they were on a UN mission and neutral. So when “Surly” sees a pack of cigarettes bulging in the officer’s pocket he says to him:

“Just so you know Sir, the only way you’re leaving this OP alive is without those cigarettes.”

The Officer wisely complied.:p

Pretty stupid question really, but I decided to see if I really am alone in the world. I actually like the smell (whether from cigarettes, cigars, or pipe tobacco) and find it somewhat refreshing. The odd part is, I don't smoke very much (an estimate of about a pack a year feels high) and never was a heavy smoker.
So, do you like tobacco smoke? Would you get an Ashtray brand air-freshener?
You smoke? I'm sorry, but I cannot just follow you unquestionably anymore.

The smell of good tobacco is heavenly, I could spend hours in the humidor of the cigar shop I frequent.

Smoke from tobacco is a different story.

Good cigars or pipes smell nice, if you're outside and not suffocated by them. Heavy stale smoke is nasty no matter how good the source.

You smoke? I'm sorry, but I cannot just follow you unquestionably anymore.
Only socially, I could stop anytime it became the slightest bit difficult to steal them from friends. I would stop, in fact, because I am far too cheap and lazy to buy my own cancer sticks.

cherry really just makes me think of old man (in the distinguished way, not the creepy way)

I've noticed I'm the youngest pipe smoker that I've seen in my area.

My tobacconist keeps trying to sell me on this idea of trying various mixtures that I might like, but I think he's just wants me to buy more, heh.

I tried a whiskey blend once that I didn't like, and a peaches and cream type that was quite good.

Tobacco smoke has a rancid odor. I don't mind people smoking the trash, however, as long as it is done privately.

I've noticed I'm the youngest pipe smoker that I've seen in my area.

My tobacconist keeps trying to sell me on this idea of trying various mixtures that I might like, but I think he's just wants me to buy more, heh.

I tried a whiskey blend once that I didn't like, and a peaches and cream type that was quite good.
19 and I've gotten several people onto them and cigars...my local tobaccoist gives me free because I've driven so much business his way (I was 18 between a year and 2 years before my friends, so I would just bring them along and buy for them)

Pretty stupid question really, but I decided to see if I really am alone in the world. I actually like the smell (whether from cigarettes, cigars, or pipe tobacco) and find it somewhat refreshing. The odd part is, I don't smoke very much (an estimate of about a pack a year feels high) and never was a heavy smoker.
So, do you like tobacco smoke? Would you get an Ashtray brand air-freshener?
No because I don't have a sense of smell.. so, I guess I don't care either way.

I detest the smell of tobacco smoke. The worst is when someone comes in, who isn't smokingat the moment, but the smell permeates his/her clothes and hair and is coupled with B/O - just nauseating.

The smell of tobacco itself, however, is quite nice.

I do not, never have, and never intend to smoke tobacco. However, whilst cigarette smoke is pretty manky, especially when stale, I must confess I find the smell of pipe or cigar tobacco somewhat more appealing, especially when freshly burnt.

Marijuana smell = Good
Cigarette smell = Bad

I try to avoid cigarette smoke whenever possible.

Pibes, however, are pretty awesome, especially scented ones.

No because I don't have a sense of smell.. so, I guess I don't care either way.
Do you really? And by "really", I mean "literally". Because then I'll just use this opportunity to ask if you still have much of a sense of taste? I've wondered about that before, seeing how the sense of taste is reduced to almost nothing when you have a cold.

[x] Tobacco smoke smells terrible

Absolutely can't stand it.

Smells like a lifetime of debilitating chemotherapy. :)

Do you really? And by "really", I mean "literally". Because then I'll just use this opportunity to ask if you still have much of a sense of taste? I've wondered about that before, seeing how the sense of taste is reduced to almost nothing when you have a cold.
my dad has no sense of smell for the most part (most days... sometimes it comes back) cos of operations done when he was a kid. he can still taste fine... though i guess its all relative.

I don't like it, but it's tolerable.

my dad has no sense of smell for the most part (most days... sometimes it comes back) cos of operations done when he was a kid. he can still taste fine... though i guess its all relative.
Huh. Interesting.

I My lungs can't take smoking a Cigarette, but I don't mind the smell of one.

I don't really mind it at all (it's ok, I guess), but it's not like I like it. I also don't smoke (I'm about 4 years under-age for that :D), and don't plan on doing it.

it stinks

Pretty stupid question really, but I decided to see if I really am alone in the world. I actually like the smell (whether from cigarettes, cigars, or pipe tobacco) and find it somewhat refreshing. The odd part is, I don't smoke very much (an estimate of about a pack a year feels high) and never was a heavy smoker.
So, do you like tobacco smoke? Would you get an Ashtray brand air-freshener?
Stupid questions and you go perfect together only one things beats it your stupid answers.

It depends on the Tobacco for mine.

Pretty stupid question really, but I decided to see if I really am alone in the world. I actually like the smell (whether from cigarettes, cigars, or pipe tobacco) and find it somewhat refreshing. The odd part is, I don't smoke very much (an estimate of about a pack a year feels high) and never was a heavy smoker.
So, do you like tobacco smoke? Would you get an Ashtray brand air-freshener?

Smells horrid, unless it's actually yours.

my dad has no sense of smell for the most part (most days... sometimes it comes back) cos of operations done when he was a kid. he can still taste fine... though i guess its all relative.

Yea, but when he eats steak, it probably tastes like what we taste custard to be like or summat.

i don't smoke but i like the smell of smoke, but i guess that's only because it's the smell of bars and parties, i hate it when somebody blows the smoke in my face though.

Smells horrid, unless it's actually yours.
Just like farts, eh? :)

Absolutely nauseating. Makes me want to vomit. I'll be the guy who will give a smoker the evil eye since I don't care to breath in, smell or be around the fumes from those cancer sticks.

Don't really mind so long as the smoke is from a pipe or a cigar

It depends on the kind of tobacco. If it's good quality, then yeah, it's pretty nice... Though the smoke starts getting to me, which isn't very nice at all.

I used to be indifferent to the smell, but these days, it brings back memories. Good ones.

Tobacco smoke smells absolutely horrid...it might even be worse than marijuana, which I haven't yet smelled...or didn't know I did. I get queasy when I smell tobacco. :(