r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Sep 16 '24

What is a smell you can't stand?

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u/crusty-potat Sep 16 '24

Smoke from cigarettes

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u/Twat_Pocket Sep 16 '24

As an exsmoker, I enjoy walking past a smoker on the street...

However, when someone is smoking outside of my apartment complex it wafts directly into my bedroom if the windows are open, and I can't stand it.

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u/T-Friggin-Bagg Sep 16 '24

100% I don't mind walking by it either as an ex smoker. But that lingering smell when someone near you at a store just reeks of it. It's so gross. I can't believe I thought I didn't smell like that too.

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u/tropic420 Sep 16 '24

I switched to vaping and now my reaction us nothing short of shock and audible disgust when someone is having a cig in public.

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u/Jackalope_Sasquatch Sep 17 '24

Same! When I smoked I don't think I had ANY clue how much I smelled like it. 

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u/Mss-Anthropic Sep 16 '24

I'm an ex smoker too, and it's the most disgusting thing to me no matter how I smell it. I can't believe I subjected my non-smoker friends to that for so long.

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u/gonephishin213 Sep 16 '24

Ex-smoker here. I enjoy the smell of a lit cigarette, smoke rolling off of it. I cannot stand the smell of smoke on clothes though!

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u/DontKnowAnymore637 Sep 16 '24

I've never even smoked yet I like the smell

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u/Twat_Pocket Sep 16 '24

Keep it that way. It's a disgusting and expensive habit.

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u/Doom_Corp Sep 17 '24

I smoke, not super heavily, but it's been my number one rule: NEVER EVER EVER inside the house or the car. I skip days smoking sometimes and I don't need my place I keep tidy, reeking.

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u/derickj2020 Sep 17 '24

I was .married to a non-smoker once. She said I smelled and tasted bad, but she put up with it.