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I don't smoke or chew and neither does LOML.. but we've started growing some tobacco anyway just because it seems like a good idea hah (I actually like the flowers.. so there's that).

Mike Stafford said:
One of the things the doctor told Granddaddy was that he should stop smoking
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People are so ridiculous... When my grandpa was dying of cancer my aunt used to give him a ton of grief over having a few chocolates because of his diabetes.. The rest of us were all pretty much of the opinion that he might as well enjoy a few small pleasures at that point and a candy bar wasn't going to be the terminal problem.
 
Ryan Mooney said:
I don't smoke or chew and neither does LOML.. but we've started growing some tobacco anyway just because it seems like a good idea hah (I actually like the flowers.. so there's that).



People are so ridiculous... When my grandpa was dying of cancer my aunt used to give him a ton of grief over having a few chocolates because of his diabetes.. The rest of us were all pretty much of the opinion that he might as well enjoy a few small pleasures at that point and a candy bar wasn't going to be the terminal problem.
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Have thought about it myself. I like the smell of a pipe mostly, but probably wouldn’t smoke one.
 
I smoked 1 to 2 packs a day from the age of 15 to 55 and I'll be paying the price for the rest of my life. Stupidest thing I ever did. :rolleyes. When I quit cigs I used a nicotine vape for a couple of years, and then switched to nicotine gum. This year I've cut that back a lot, but haven't quit completely.
 
As Vaughn, started smoking at 15. As I grew older tried to quit but no dice. Then at 36 got the flu real bad,hard to breathe etc. Laid there and no longer wanted a smoke. Just quit cold turkey.. That induced my wife to quit also. Best decision of our life. The saving in smokes kept our daughter in Pampers. Still had the urge, but did not back slide. Especially bad on llooong trips across the deserts of New Mexico.
David
 
I'm still pulling up carpets room by room, still have the office and living room to go. I'm also pulling the pad and all of the tack strip. Seems like every room around the edges of the outer walls and registers is where it the heaviest.
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Can tell where the pictures had hung for the last 40 years too.
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I was first thinking it was odd that the edges of the dining room were much heavier on the ceiling around the crown molding, but upon closer inspection it appears to be a clear overspray that was put on, which looks to be over the paint, not sure if they were going for an extra shine or what, but it's yellowed with time.
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I quit when they were 65 cents a pack. Winstons and Newports

My dad never quit, dies of emphysema. His home was severely cigarette saturated. House burned down, not due to him. I do remember washing the walls at one time - nasty.
 
I’ve been at the farm all weekend and went to put on a shirt out of my travel bag, which came out of the washer in KC and into the bag before we left. The shirt and clothes in the bag reeked of smoke. My CPAP also has a strong smell if it when I turn it on each night, probably should swap the filter out.

I’ll be running the ozone generator this next weekend in some closed off spaces to see if it helps
 
Vaughn, pull the tubes and clean them with Windex and a paper towel. The hot tubes are where 90+% of the smell comes from. I used to rebuild jukeboxes and other amusement vending machines, and if the cabinet wasn't completely soaked in cooking grease and tobacco tar, I just cleaned the tubes and got rid of the smell. It's the cigarette tar cooking on the hot glass of the tubes that will give off most of the smell. Just make certain that you put each tube back where it came from.

Charley
 
Charles Lent said:
Vaughn, pull the tubes and clean them with Windex and a paper towel. The hot tubes are where 90+% of the smell comes from. I used to rebuild jukeboxes and other amusement vending machines, and if the cabinet wasn't completely soaked in cooking grease and tobacco tar, I just cleaned the tubes and got rid of the smell. It's the cigarette tar cooking on the hot glass of the tubes that will give off most of the smell. Just make certain that you put each tube back where it came from.

Charley
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Yeah, the tubes and transformers are the real culprits. They could all stand to be re-tubed and possibly re-capped. My oldest one, a 1968 Fender Deluxe Reverb, hasn't been powered up since the 1980s when it let the smoke out of the power amp tubes, so I've known it needs to go to the shop but just haven't wanted to spend the money to have it fixed. My mid '70s Music Man still ran the last time I fired it up, but it's been more than 20 years since that's happened. I've also got a mid-80s Mesa Boogie that ran about that long ago as well. I no longer use real amps*, so they're just taking up space in my house. I could stand to thin the herd a bit just to make some space. Working or not, I'll never sell the Deluxe because that's the amp my parents bought for me when I was a kid, and it took me through school and touring with a band. I also toured with the Music Man, but it doesn't have the same sentimental value as the Fender, so I'll probably sell it at some point. And the Mesa Boogie is the smallest of the lot, so it doesn't take up much space. I'll probably hang onto it just in case I ever have a desire to use a real amp in the future.


*Instead of lugging 40-60 pound amps around, these days I use an amp modeler, a rack-mounted solid state device the reproduces the sound and feel of a tube amp. (Or in this case, over 300 different tube amps.)
 
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