I live in an 8×11 dorm room and I don’t want to go outside to have a cigarette, but if i smoke in my dorm i don’t want the smoke alarm to go off.
I mainly want to get rid of the smell of cigarette smoke in my bedroom that drifts down the hall from my parents room.
Do ionic filters work well for this? They seem convenient since you don’t have to buy new filters ever. But do they work well? If not, what is the best kind?
I live in apartment. They’re fairly nice and expensive. However, one of the neighbors must be a heavy smoker, because my apartment fills with the smell of cigarette smoke every single day. It’s especially bad in the kitchen and if you turn on the vent fan above the stove, it smells terrible! It also comes through the fan in the bathroom. The smoke is so bad and is triggering headaches in me nearly every single night (I’m prone to cluster headaches and cigarette smoke is a trigger for me). It’s also making my throat sore. I know these are the effects of the smoke because I lived with family that smoked for 17 years. Anyway, what can I do about this? I live in Washington state. I know we just passed strict anti-smoking laws, but I don’t think anything is mentioned about cases like this. The apartment staff is incredibly unhelpful. It’s becoming unbearable to be in my own apartment! I can’t afford to move either and am still locked in to a 10 month lease. Does anyone have any suggestions?
To iritadragon: I’m not having issues with my neighbor. I’m not the only one who has noticed the cigarette smoke. My in-laws first pointed it out to me when I came back from a trip to California and they were watching out apartment. This isn’t in my head. Ultimately, I wouldn’t care if I could smell the cigarette smoke as long as I didn’t have the physical problems that came along with it. And it isn’t psychological. My throat is sore. I get headaches. Is it so inconceivable that the toxic chemicals in cigarettes could cause these things? Cigarettes KILL people. Yet if I get a sore throat or headache from second hand smoke, it must be psychological? That’s just silly.
Ultimately, I don’t even know which neighbor it is. It could be the guy below me which would make sense because the way the apartment is set up. It doesn’t have very good insulation and it could very likely have a problem with the fans. I smell the dryer sheets of my neigbhors dryer when they do laundry as well.
I don’t smoke a lot, so I keep my cigs in the frig to keep them from getting stale. My uncle says that doing this causes the cigarettes t o absorb odors, like baking soda, so I shouldn’t do that. Is that true?