Rann

Add a cup of soda to your wash water to help remove the smell. Or during hunting season, buy some of the no scent stuff hunters use and that definitely work.

Lucy90

My husband smoked for years and I finally put my foot down and said NO MORE!! I started having breathing problems and a reaction so it was that or QUIT! I took if for 35 years. You have a right to breath good air don't worry about you fabric worry about YOURSELF!!

Sharonsews

My niece and nephews kept their bedroom doors closed while their parents would smoke on the porches. Their clothes, books, bookbags, etc all smelled of smoke. It took many weeks of being aired out before the smell would leave. I get headaches from being around cigarette smoke - even walking past someone smoking. Sorry, I didn't mean to be a spoilsport but there may be others like me that are affected by smoke.

Maurene

it isn;t only tobacco that causes sickness it is the thousands of chemicals that are released when a cig is lit - from pesticides, fungicides, fertilizers, herbicides etc all thrown on tobacco to maximize growth and minimize productivity loss. Many people are more damaged by this than the tobacco. I have worked as a nurse for 50 years with people dying from tobacco addictions, as young as small babies exposed to second hand smoke to middle agers and seniors going blind, deaf, getting emphysema and horrible cancers of all kinds. The worst was a 19 yr old with his throat and jaw half eaten away by tobacco caused cancer. Tobacco is not a pure product as it was when Native peoples grew and used it for special occasions.
I love teaching people to kick that weed! I do it gently, slowly and people are delighted with themselves when they've beaten "Lady Nicotine" as my father called it. Tho the term brought alarm bells to the beginning feminist I was, I was so delighted he stopped smoking I ignored the chauvinist language.

GlitzyMe

Please let me breathe! Not only do I have allergies but I live with asthma. Happiness is not having an asthma attack.

My BIL smokes and everything my sister sends me just reeks of smoke. Anything fabric goes immediately into the washer with a healthy dose of vinegar. I open the boxes outside and have to wash my hands immediately. I put anything paper in a rubber tote with a box of baking soda and leave it for days. She does not smoke but lives in it so she can't distinguish the difference.

Fragrances........ugh! How many times I've been 'trapped' with someone who adores their perfume too much! We went to a Neil Diamond concert - spent over $200.00 for tickets only to have seats directly behind some young career gals who reeked of perfume. I was miserable - spent the entire evening holding a paper in front of my mouth and nose.

I received a summons for jury duty recently and when I sent the response in I checked off the 'special considerations' box and asked to be seated away from anyone wearing fragrance.

Yes, those are my animals in the avatar.....Brad takes them outside every single morning and brushes, then vacuums them. They have been trained that the floor is theirs, the furniture is mine.

BarbaraSue

My daughter and her husband both smoke, but not in the house. however, she takes her quilts to the laundromat to wash prior to being given away. Have had no trouble with that so far. Most of ther sewing and fabrics are at my house.

sandy l

Yes, I smoke, but out in the garage, never in house. I also have cats, so try to keep them out of my sewing room, but every thing I make, I wash and check for hair before giving.

SUZAG

Thank you all for the suggestions. I think I will make something small and go through the steps of the washing/bagging and take it to a brutally truthful friend that has bad allergies and see what she thinks. Thanks again!

Margie

Smoke and cat equals possible asthma attack. I dont think it is a good idea

JulieR

If she discloses the information then the person with asthma needs to be an adult about it and make another choice.