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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Couple of years back when Texas lost power because of stupid…that February, the kid and I were stuck with no power and had to cook over a fire in the fireplace. I had a bunch of mesquite in the back yard and quickly converted my gas fireplace to wood burning. Got a pan and made some soup. I probably used the pan 5 times in the fire during those few days, but the smell of that mesquite stayed for months. My kid would regularly ask me to use the pan to make the smoky soup because it actually tasted very different, cooked over that flame verses on the stove. Maybe it was just the smell, but months later, it still seemed to impart a small flavor to things if you used that pan. eventually it wore totally off and now, it’s just a pan. So I think it’s an issue of persistence. Cigarette smoke tends to be persistent. Smoky mesquite soup pan has lost all memory of that fireplace and the yummy mesquite flavored soup now because we only used it 5 times.