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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they don’t dissipate faster. The tars found in nicotine stain quicker and the smell is more acrid, but the smell of MJ and the tars from MJ definitely do stain. the main difference is, usually tobacco users smoke far more frequently than stoners. and with todays modern smoking devices, they could be smoking concentrates, vaporizing, etc. but rest assured, the “resin” that builds up in smoking devices, definitely gets deposited on walls and drapes and clothes and fingers.

Paper also definitely stains if the smoke touches a surface. If you burn cardboard, your clothes will smell like burnt cardboard until they are washed. and buildups of particulates will stain porous and non porous materials. Playdough was invented to clean soot particulate from coal, wood, etc from wall paper in the olden days