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

I’ll have you know, as the child of hippies and witches, heavy cannabis use *absolutely* has a smell (It’s lighter/more floral, but still smells “like weed”), and so does incense and sage.

Everything does. A smoker’s house smells like tobacco for the same reason my grandma’s smells like Italian food or why my bedroom smells like strong incense – It’s *always* there, and it gets into everything, but whoever lives there fails to notice because they’re used to it. Everyone’s home has a unique smell that comes from a combination of what foods they cook, beauty products everyone uses, what they do or not not burn, etc.