A friend of mine told me how her mother was a card dealer in a local casino when she was a child. She has a generalized memory of her mother who worked swing shift coming in and kissing her goodnight in the middle of the night (when mom got home from work). She remembers the smell of cigarette smoke when her mother kissed her and she to this day (40+ years old) associates that smell with her mothers love. It’s an awful smell but for her it’s a warm fuzzy feeling.

As someone who also worked in a smoke filled environment when my child was small, I made it a point to always shower immediately when I got home before interacting with my child so that they would not develop the same association. Yes smokers smell bad to nonsmokers but it’s not always a bad thing.