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[JoePhilly]

92. 2 stories on this ....

1) I rarely get to visit my mother's house. She smokes. Usually when I see her, she and I stay at my sister's house for a few days. Mom lives up in the PA mountains and the time to drive where she lives would reduce the time we'd actually see each other. But I do at times go to her house. The last time I went, I stayed at her house one night. I was there a little more than 24 hours. I kept my luggage bag closed almost the entire time. When I flew home, and opened that bag, everything in it smelled like cigarette smoke.

2) I take the kids to a bowling lanes. Over 10 years ago, it allowed smoking. It has a bar area, but it stopped allowing smoking inside more than 10 years ago. They pulled out all the carpet. Cleaned and painted everything. Plus 10 years. You can still smell it. Its not a strong smell. But its a background smell.

Both of my parents smoked. I never did. And it was only after I moved away, that I came to know what other things smelled like.