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)?

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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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Anonymous 0 Comments

Smoking tobacco has a lot of sugar in it (which is part of its “casing.”) I’m pretty sure it is the sugar which causes tobacco smoke to stick to things and stay put. Carmel vapor floating onto and sticking to surfaces (including your lungs).

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Smoking tobacco has a lot of sugar in it (which is part of its “casing.”) I’m pretty sure it is the sugar which causes tobacco smoke to stick to things and stay put. Carmel vapor floating onto and sticking to surfaces (including your lungs).

Anonymous 0 Comments

One detail being left out of the explanations is the degree of smoke production. Most non tobacco smoke production occurs for a few hours at most. No one has a smudge going 24/7/365 in their house. Even heavy marijuana smokers take breaks for food.

*Tobacco smokers are lighting up as often as possible*. Several packs of cigarettes a day inside their houses and cars. This is true even with the roll your own crowd. When there’s smoke being produced in a house 24/7/365, with brief breaks for sleep and to smoke in one’s car, the smoke seeps into walls and clothing, and lingers in the air.

Technically it doesn’t have to be tobacco making the smoke, it just happens to be tobacco usually making the 24/7/365 smoke. Crude houses with fire pits have wood smoke seeping into walls and clothing, and lingering in the air.

Anonymous 0 Comments

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.

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One detail being left out of the explanations is the degree of smoke production. Most non tobacco smoke production occurs for a few hours at most. No one has a smudge going 24/7/365 in their house. Even heavy marijuana smokers take breaks for food.

*Tobacco smokers are lighting up as often as possible*. Several packs of cigarettes a day inside their houses and cars. This is true even with the roll your own crowd. When there’s smoke being produced in a house 24/7/365, with brief breaks for sleep and to smoke in one’s car, the smoke seeps into walls and clothing, and lingers in the air.

Technically it doesn’t have to be tobacco making the smoke, it just happens to be tobacco usually making the 24/7/365 smoke. Crude houses with fire pits have wood smoke seeping into walls and clothing, and lingering in the air.

Anonymous 0 Comments

One detail being left out of the explanations is the degree of smoke production. Most non tobacco smoke production occurs for a few hours at most. No one has a smudge going 24/7/365 in their house. Even heavy marijuana smokers take breaks for food.

*Tobacco smokers are lighting up as often as possible*. Several packs of cigarettes a day inside their houses and cars. This is true even with the roll your own crowd. When there’s smoke being produced in a house 24/7/365, with brief breaks for sleep and to smoke in one’s car, the smoke seeps into walls and clothing, and lingers in the air.

Technically it doesn’t have to be tobacco making the smoke, it just happens to be tobacco usually making the 24/7/365 smoke. Crude houses with fire pits have wood smoke seeping into walls and clothing, and lingering in the air.

Anonymous 0 Comments

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.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Marijuana produces tar just as bad as tobacco does; the difference is smokers light up more heavily than potheads do. I used to smoke inside very heavily and it took over a year before I saw tar stains on the cieling. Now with marijuana you only burn about 1 or 2 cigarillos worth of plants per day so it will take a lot longer before you start seeing the tar.

Anonymous 0 Comments

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.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Marijuana produces tar just as bad as tobacco does; the difference is smokers light up more heavily than potheads do. I used to smoke inside very heavily and it took over a year before I saw tar stains on the cieling. Now with marijuana you only burn about 1 or 2 cigarillos worth of plants per day so it will take a lot longer before you start seeing the tar.