What is it about tobacco that causes its smoke to seep into walls and linger when other burnt plant material does not (at least not nearly to the same degree)?

Question

Marijuana, smudging sage or cedar, paper, incense, etc have a pretty strong smell but they dissipate much faster than tobacco smoke especially cigar smoke

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Answer 1

The main thing is tar and regularity. If you, or someone you know, smoked weed as often as a smoker smokes smoke, in the house, the result would be similar.

But, seeing as weed and most other burnt plant particulates (like potpourri) don’t have nicotine in them, people don’t smoke (or burn) them as much as they smoke cigarettes.

A smoker’s house becomes the way it does because they smoke in it regularly, and quite a bit. I’m sure I’ve met people who smoke as much weed as I smoked as a smoker, but I’ve never been to their houses to see what it’s like. Either way, if you burn enough plant material in a house, it will result in something very similar to a smoker’s house. Discoloration, sticky, grimy.