I know why this is: it’s because my mom, the only family member that I was close with, smoked a whole bunch, and so I have positive childhood associations.
Whether it be the active smell of somebody who’s smoking nearby or the lingering scent that’s left or that sticks around in place where people smoke frequently, such as bars or hallways or similar, I like it a lot.
Yet even so, I was actually stunned when I found that there are very few people who agree, and many are the folks who think that it smells bad.
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Yep. This is an unpopular opinion. Well done.
It’s unpopular, for sure. Is it really an opinion though?
OP didn’t actually say much about cigarette smell, other than their personal preference about it. If you say that something is good, bad or in between, that would be an opinion. If you say you like or dislike something, that’s a personal preference.
I can see where you’re coming from with this (“I, the individual, like the smell of cigarette smoke” is a fact, compared to the statement “the smell of cigarette smoke is pleasant” which is an opinion), but this level of pedantry is really something else!
I’m impressed!
That’s explains the downvotes, LOL.
Yes it is.
I’ve been hospitalized due to secondhand smoke, so I definitely hate the smell. It is physically painful for me.
Is it an asthma trigger for you?
I don’t think it was considered an asthma trigger, though I do not have the best time breathing with cigarette smoke, either. It was an allergy trigger. It even happened through apartment walls, when my neighbors smoked. Allergy meds and HEPA filters didn’t really help much, and the doctor had no suggestions for me.
Interestingly enough, people vaping nicotine doesn’t bother me, just if they burn the leaf. The only way I knew someone was vaping is if I saw it or it was flavored, no physical symptoms that I noticed.
Same here. I quit smoking before a lot of Lemmy people were born, and have no interest or temptation to start again. I still like it. It’s good friends and hanging out late at night, it’s taking a break up on the roof. I don’t want throat cancer but the smell is still nice.
I get it. I also get how some people like the smell of gasoline or diesel fumes. That’s why I like that public places are shifting towards a default of preventing smells. Some people like things, but allowing some will annoy others
My real estate agent calls it “depersonalizing” the space. Remove all signs that it is occupied by humans with personalities. Make it like a furniture store.
Ideally we’ll do that to the whole world. Everything clean, grey, odorless.
Are flowers and rain also included as odors to be removed?
Cig smoke is fine for me, but I LOVE the smell of weed smoke (and I don’t smoke weed)
It’s definitely nostalgic for me, since one set of grandparents smoked when I was a kid. It never really bothered me…unless I was driving in their car, where it would give me motion sickness. I was never prone to it otherwise; only when driving on mountain roads in a car that reeked of cigarettes.
To their credit, they quit smoking when my older sister had her first kid, but the smell of cigarettes just throws me back to the summers spent helping Grandpa with whatever home improvement project he was working on.
I get it; I like the smell of stale cigarettes trapped in an indoor location.
Cigars, on the other hand, can fuck right off.
Ex smoker, hate the smell.
The only time I legitimately cherished the smell was when I stepped into a portapotty that had previously smelled like death for the entire week. That day though, some hero decided to chain smoke in that thing and you couldn’t smell the shit anymore.
We’ve tried the trees you put on your rear view mirror, we tried cans of febreeze, only cigarettes hide the portapotty smell. Please, Cigarette smokers, be the heros we need you to be
I love this comment :3
My dad smoked Camels while I was growing up, and, to this day, I still like the smell of them. Reminds me so much of him, and all the little opportunities he took to light up.
Absolutely hated how my clothes would smell after going back to my mom’s, though. Just awful…
Not a fan of tobacco smoke but enjoy the smell of unlit tobacco.
My parents owned and operated a restaurant for 35 years so I grew up hanging at the bar and huffing second hand smoke while watching TGIF. For me, smelling smoke and stale beer is super comforting. Even typing that I realize is incredibly fucked up but it is what it is. I learned a ton of social skills and relating to all ages and walks of life and it has served me well but its a pretty messed up childhood.
An Italian restaurant?
Greek, Italian and American fare. How’d you guess?
You made me think of a friend who had a similar upbringing and his family owned an Italian restaurant
Wait…which era of TGIF? Because that block ran for like 12 years. Started when I was a kid, and I was college aged when it finished.
Dinosaurs was a solid show.
Mid to late 90s, Boy meets girl, step by step, family matters, etc. Would just hang there most of the night while both my parents ran the restaurant and if I got too tired I’d pass out in a booth and my parents would wake me when it was time to go home.
do you also like the smell of lung cancer?
It’s really fascinating how scents are tied to memory, like if that scent didn’t bring good memories of your mom, would you still like it? It’s an unanswerable question, just interesting to me.
A lot of people in my family smoke/smoked and I smoked for a lot of years, but I also haven’t smoked for a lot of years now. There are different types of cigarette odors. Some of them don’t bother me and I actually like, but some of them make me nauseous.
Yeah scent memory is wild. I can smell something and have it bring me back to some perfume my middle school crush wore… Shit is insane.
I know exactly what you mean. My room at my parents place was on the upper floor, which got very warm in the summer, so I had the window open the whole day. My mom always smoked right below my window because she didn’t want to be seen from the street. Somehow this turned into a positive association.
I never really think about the perspective that others like or enjoy the smell of tobacco. I’ve smelled Black and Mild before and that was tolerable enough, but still not appreciated.
I dislike the smell. But I also actively avoid tobacco and others smoking, primarily for health reasons we’re all aware of. However, tobacco, marijuana, etc. smells are migraine-triggers for me. If I’m around it too long, I could spiral into a terrible migraine that takes days to recover where I’m bed ridden and vomiting for at least a day. Migraines be no fun.
