I had a situation where a friend of my daughter sent me a large box of t-shirts that she wanted made into a quilt. The box was never opened and stayed underneath the staircase, downstairs from my room, which is where I smoke. She knew I smoked prior to sending the shirts. After haggling and realizing that she didn't want to pay anything for three t-shirt quilts, I sent the box of shirts back to her, still unopened. When she received them, she e-mailed me and said they reeked of cigarettes and "what was I going to do about it." She claimed she had washed them three times and they still smelled. I told her I thought that was very unlikely, since the shirts had been downstairs, under the stairwell, and sealed since I received them and since smoke rises, I found it very unlikely that the smoke had traveled down 17 stairs, made a u-turn and gotten into a sealed box. Told her I had no intentions of doing anything. I worked with an individual for several weeks before she knew I smoked and that was only because I told her that I was going down for a smoke break. Smokers don't always smell.