I had a lovely lady give me trash bags full of scraps to get me started. When I got home and opened the bags the smell of cigarette's was horrible. I washed all of them, put them out to dry, still couldn't get the smell out. I put them in the sun for DAYS, still they smelled. I put Fabreze on them, nope that didn't work either and today, some 6 years later, when I open the case I keep them in, the smell is awful.