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How to hangout with smoking dudes but not inhaling 2nd hand smoke
If it's a breezy day, stand up-wind from them.
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How do I get rid of smoke smell
Instead of wafting through a solid wall, the smoke is probably coming through some crack/seam/open area where the air can flow between two garages. Maybe locate and seal those with canned foam.
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Smoke smell in my house
If it's tobacco smoke from long-term use, it's not easy to eliminate. The stench adheres to every surface, particularly painted walls and carpeted floor. You might need to try all of these:
Change ...
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How do I get rid of the cold cigarette smell in a room?
There are a couple of ways to go to minimize the stale smoke odour.
Easy and Expensive odour elimination hack:
Rent an ozone generator and let the ozone work within the closed apartment for a while. ...
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Smoke smell in my house
Few things worked... Hope it would work for you as well. I am a non-smoker, but I still couldn't catch it. I suppose the owner has sprayed some room freshener when I visited them...
I moved into a ...
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Smoke smell in my house
You should try an air purifier, particularly one with an ionizer. I've found that this typically helps a lot. As previously suggested, charcoal works great at trapping smells and absorbing smoke. You ...
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How do I get rid of smoke smell
A simple way to make smoke smell disappear:
Take a wet towel, not too wet. Towel of this kind would be sufficient.
Wave it around the garage and car. It will absorb all the smoke smell.
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How to hangout with smoking dudes but not inhaling 2nd hand smoke
There is pretty much nothing you can do about this other than keeping some distance from them or requesting them not to smoke when you are around (you may cook up some health issues like asthma,etc)
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How do I get rid of smoke smell
Apart from airing and washing your garage and car out, you can use odor absorbers to soak the smoke smell up. Charcoal, Febreeze, lemon and water, just water, charcoal, and vinegar are capable of ...
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How do I get rid of smoke smell
I agree with @Ron that you need to seal the wall to prevent further smoke infiltration.
But you already have a noticeable odor - in order to do something about that, you need to do 2 things:
1) Air ...
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Smoke smell in my house
Tobacco smoke smell adheres to everything in a home and if there is no clear source of the smell then more widespread measures need to be taken. Baking soda, dried coffee grounds, charcoal are often ...
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Smoke smell in my house
You could try placing a few bowls of regular, white vinegar around. Although this is typically used to get rid of paint smell, it may work on smoke as well.
Some other things you may try are crushed ...
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How can I remove tobacco spots from the inner edges of book pages?
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This is not possible
As Bamboo stated (see comments), if its tar, the only way to remove that is to wash the object thoroughly, though on some things, it remains. It's not possible to ...
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How to keep tobacco moist?
You need to use a piece of terra cotta. They sell them on amazon, etc. for use in brown sugar. When you get it, let it soak in water for about 30 minutes. Then pat the surface dry and throw it in with ...
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How to keep tobacco moist?
My personal experience and from that of the old timers is apple slices. Not only does it keep the tobacco moist, it adds a taste that pairs perfectly with tobacco.
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How can I quickly eliminate the smell of cigarette smoke in a confined space?
Air Ionizers that generate a lot of ozone are great at eliminating smoke smells. Or skip the guessing and buy a small (cheap) ozone generator.
(Warning 1: make sure it's not a fake. See, e.g. photo of ...
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