Outside "Room Note"

DanielCSan9592

Hey, all.  As an outside smoker, I want to enjoy the aroma of my tobacco while minimizing inhaling second-hand smoke.  Any suggestions for enjoying the "room note" when you have no "room?"  Thanks!

drac2485

This may sound silly but where there is almost always a breeze so i position myself in a bit of a hole as far as the wind is concerned and it normally leaves a nice room note lingering.

DanielCSan9592

Great idea, thanks!

ghostsofpompeii

Good luck with that. I usually find myself chasing down the smell like a dog sniffing for a place to pee, trying to locate a spot where I can get a good whiff of the outside room note. Everyone around me seems to be able to smell it but me. 

Woodsman

Our nose acclimate very quickly to scents, Cigarette smoker can't smell their cigarettes where everyone else including Pipe and Cigar smokers smell them all too well. The only way I can smell the pipe is puff a little smoke out of the bowl while sniffing.

motie2

Does anyone know what it is that makes cigarette smoke so..... unpleasant? As opposed, say, to the room note of a fine pipe tobacco or a premium cigar? Or is it just a bias of mine? I often wanted to go home and burn my clothes after being in a room with cigarette smokers. 

I know, "De gustibus non est disputandum."

xDutchx

@motie2, my guess is the primary culprit is the cigarette paper, possibly coupled with the chemicals they lace the tobacco with, in order to provide an accelerated nicotine rush. I remember trying some of the American Spirit cigarettes a few years back. They are advertised to be all natural, with no chemicals added, but I just couldn't get past the flavor of the cigarette paper.

I suppose it is something that cigarette smokers quickly become accustomed to. I have heard more than one cigarette smoker tell a story about quitting smoking, and then falling off the wagon. They say the first cigarette always tastes really nasty, but they quickly adapt again after 2 or 3.

ghostsofpompeii

Having frequented BINGO Parlors on occasions the first thing I noticed was how the cigarette smoke permeated the room, seemingly lingering in the air about eye level throughout the evening without dissipating. It's the main reason my wife and I quit going. The smoke affected her lungs and she could no longer enjoy the activity of me losing our money while she was being suffocated at the same time. Cigarette smoke just hangs in the air eventually filling a room with a noxious smell you simply can't escape. Now on the flipside I can sit in my garage and literally smoke three consecutive bowls if I'm in the middle of a project ... step out of the garage and through the kitchen door for a cup of coffee - then return moments later with cup in hand and the smoke has completely dissipated from the interior of the garage. The room note will linger - but the actual smoke itself is gone.  

motie2

Thanks to both of you for your comments. I've heard the paper theory and also talk of an accelerant (to keep cigarettes lit) as the source of the smell. And I am only too familiar with bingo halls as a retired clergyman. Many the evenings I had to put my clothes right in the laundry room and get right in the shower to wash my hair. My youngest, 37 smokes cigarettes and he smells like nicotine more than smoke. Other than about my breath, SWMBO has never complained about how I smell after coming inside from smoking my pipe. (She just won't let me smoke in the house.)

Woodsman

I hadn't been in a smoke filled room in years until the North East Slow Smoking Contest where 60 or so pipers filled the air. I went outside to my car for something and the cold air cleared my nose, when I re entered all I got was a strong room note. Conversely if I go on my porch hours after my son has smoked a cigarette the smell knocks me back.

PappyJoe

The Mardi Gras parade Krewe I belonged to for 14 years ran a Bingo game once a week as a fund raiser and was very prosperous up until the legalized casinos and banned smoking. I worked as a caller for most of those years and would have to throw my clothes in the wash and take a shower when I got home. Even a year after the smoking ban, you could walk into the Bingo hall and smell musty cigarette smoke. 

We had a small uprising one time when several of us rebelled against one table of obnoxious old chain-smoking ladies by lighting up cigars. They actually complained about the smoke.

pwkarch

@motie2

Wow, cosmic, I was at another Architects' office this morning and in very elaborate font style was the statement "De gustibus non est disputandum." over the interior side of the conference room door. It became a short discussion relative to its' understanding to an architect. But what cracks me up is, I find it here on a post of yours from back in March quite by accident after having seen and discussed this just earlier today. Now is this serendipitous or is it just highly coincidental? Makes me wonder how and why these coincidences occur. The fact of the matter is I could go my entire life NEVER to have seen this, and today I see it twice. Cosmic.

motie2

"There's magic in the night," this night especially.

pwkarch

SPOOKY

pwkarch

@motie2

I am so fascinated by this coincidence today that I keep thinking about it, and telling people about it. I can't imagine the odds against something like this. I am in a state of amazement and aw. Perhaps GREAT minds are in tune somehow.

mfresa

Hey @motie2, can you translate the latin for the English-only speaking lurkers here?  I fell off the Latin wagon years ago.  Thanks  :-)

motie2

@mfresa -- De gustibus non est disputandum, or De gustibus non disputandum est, is a Latin maxim meaning "In matters of taste, there can be no disputes" (literally "about tastes, it should not be disputed/discussed"). The implication is that everyone's personal preferences are merely subjective opinions that cannot be right or wrong, so they should never be argued about as if they were. Sometimes the phrase is expanded as De gustibus et coloribus non disputandum est ... referring to tastes and colors. The phrase is most commonly rendered in English as "There is no accounting for taste."] The original quotation is an ancient Latin adage.

mfresa

@motie2, thank you I will try to remember this.

motie2

@mfresa, Sir, I am pleased to have been of assistance. I try to learn something every day, myself. And a lot of the guys online here have really been helpful.

KA9FFJ

@DanielCSan9592 Go to your garage (I'm assuming you have one, if not, sorry), crack a window open high enough to set a small fan on the sill, then sit right nest to the fan. The fan will direct most of the smoke out of the garage but will usually swirl around a bit before evacuating the premises. Enjoy the room note and, with a little time after you've completed your smoke, the garage will be none the worse for wear...

hoipolloi

Wile not exactly room note, i suggest you grow a beard bc it holds the note for a long time. 

motie2

(THE ORIGINAL BEARD FRESHENER)   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LKtvQlm_Wk