@JLeslie “I have no idea if the OP just had a few people smoking one day, or there have been smokers in her place for days, weeks, months. Just opening a window wouldn’t clear out the smell if the smoking has been going on for a while. Also, depending on where she lives, opening the windows might not be easily feasible for an extended period.”
Valid points. Personally, I rarely smoke indoors unless it’s someplace that is either well-ventilated (I’m talking industrial-strength ventilation that makes the exhaust fan in most bathrooms look pathetically anemic) or someplace that is already fucked, like dive bars (in states where that is still legal). Many of the latter places would probably still smell like smoke if you knocked the old building down, buried it, and built another one, making it a moot point.
But many of the former don’t let the smoke stick around long enough to soak in. Case in point; my car. I still have enough of a sense of smell to know when my neighbor three doors down is sitting outside smoking, yet my car’s upholstery doesn’t smell like an ashtray. The reason? Opening the drivers window about an inch really sucks the smoke out. Of course, the average home doesn’t have wind going by the window at 60+ MPH to create a vacuum….
BTW, to show you how ridiculous some anti-smokers can get, when I was selling a 1985 Golf, a prospective buyer called me up and asked if the car had ever been smoked in. Now, we are talking a 20-year-old car here, and the ad stated that I recently picked it up (implying that I was not the first owner) as a project car and was selling it due to abandoning the project. Some people….