Question: My mom believes the odor tobacco, produces, not the smoke, is harmful by itself... Is it true?

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Answer #1:

You smell something when particles of some chemical substance hit receptors in your nose. So the smell is really the same thing as the smoke although it wouldn't be as concentrated. If you live in a place where you smell the smell of smoke constantly it could certainly affect your health.

Answer #2:

Incorrect.

Take an unlit cigarette and smell it. It smells like a cigarette... because it is a cigarette.

You can tape that cigarette to your nose and sniff at it for 60 years, but you're not gonna develop any lung conditions because you're not inhaling smoke... you're just smelling cigarrettes.

Simultaneously, the odor for cigarettes is intense, and caps off after a certain point. Have someone smoke in a room. Walk in while the smoke is fogging the air and smell the air. It's strong. Walk out, wait 10 minutes. Walk back in while it's clear and smell the air. It's still strong... yet the air is clear.

When you walk by someone on the sidewalk smoking a cigarette and get a whiff of smoke, the odor is just that, odor. It's unpleasant. Farts are unpleasant, and inhaling methane lately will kill you but that doesn't mean passing by someone who farted outdoors and then smelling it is gonna give you methane poisoning for crying out loud.





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