02-14-2018, 11:40 PM
hal wrote:
I might have to throw this one away. Yuck!
I'm convinced that if I really knew that smell BEFORE I started smoking, I never would have started.
At work, we've thrown out working Macs that belonged to chain smokers. Not only so gunked up inside as to be a fire hazard and nothing you'd want to touch even with thick gloves on, but the stench from cracking one open or leaving one running and heating up can be bad enough to force an evacuation of the building.
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The last tenants in my apartment liked to smoke in a corner of the kitchen. For the first few months after I moved in, the gunk from the smoke-residue kept seeping through the fresh paint and turned the white walls into a speckled gray that carried a horrible stench like something rotting in a bath of tar and nicotine. After it was repainted 3 times and the gunk continued to seep, my landlord finally replaced that whole section of drywall.