I realize that it is common knowledge nowadays that secondhand smoke is just as dangerous as smoking yourself. And (hopefully) this has made some impact upon people's choices to smoke around others and upon restaurant, hotel and other establishments policies regarding smoking.
However, I think that there is not enough information out there to inform people about the dangers and long-term damage of smoke to third parties. For instance, in our new apartment (as in past ones), we experience the damaging effects of this third hand smoke. We have not smoked. We have not been inhaling someone elses smoke while they induldge. Instead, we are living in the disgusting after effects of smoke ladden carpets, walls, closets and air. When we open a cupboard, it's as is some really small person were inside smoking and blowing it at our faces. Same thing when we get near our bedroom closet. Which means that our clothes are likely to smell as if we've been smoking (this was one of my bigger fears in high school - people thinking I'm a smoker when I am no smoker). We bought this magical "smokers candle" at WalMart yesterday, and hopefully that will help to eliminate the "stale tobacco odor" in some parts of our apartment. But until then, we will continue to walk around wearing face masks and spreading Bounce dryer sheets all over the closet to absorb and mask the stinky mess that someone else left for us.
We do love our new apartment though.
However, I think that there is not enough information out there to inform people about the dangers and long-term damage of smoke to third parties. For instance, in our new apartment (as in past ones), we experience the damaging effects of this third hand smoke. We have not smoked. We have not been inhaling someone elses smoke while they induldge. Instead, we are living in the disgusting after effects of smoke ladden carpets, walls, closets and air. When we open a cupboard, it's as is some really small person were inside smoking and blowing it at our faces. Same thing when we get near our bedroom closet. Which means that our clothes are likely to smell as if we've been smoking (this was one of my bigger fears in high school - people thinking I'm a smoker when I am no smoker). We bought this magical "smokers candle" at WalMart yesterday, and hopefully that will help to eliminate the "stale tobacco odor" in some parts of our apartment. But until then, we will continue to walk around wearing face masks and spreading Bounce dryer sheets all over the closet to absorb and mask the stinky mess that someone else left for us.
We do love our new apartment though.
2 comments:
Try buying some baking soda boxes and putting them in closets. Charcoal helps, too....or Febreze. You could also try scrubbing the surfaces....or getting the carpet cleaned. Maybe management would pay?
We have baking soda boxes in every cabinet (next to the Orkin stuff), we have some potpurri in one cabinet, and a trick we learned in our last apartment. We put dryer sheets around and between everything in our closets. It seems to be the cheapest and most effective remedy so far, since it gives off its normal aroma as well as absorbs the smoke smell from the shelves and walls it touches. We actually started doing this with our luggage first, because we would travel somewhere, put a shirt on past our faces, and ask ourselves, "Do we always smell like smoke?" So we took the first step of taking the smell out of our luggage by storing them with dryer sheets and now we also make sure our clothes don't smell with the same method.
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