My recently-widowed father-in-law has been hospitalized with a lung infection so I’m dog and house sitting for him while he’s admitted. This is a pack-a-day, smokes-indoors , never-opened-a-window-in-their-life boomer’s house. Were this ten years ago, it probably would not have bothered me because I would have just quit smoking at that time and no doubt would notice this musty rotted death smell. When you first quit smoking, you’d (in your mind) step over your own child when you smell a cigarette to steal it from that smoker. After ten years of being cigarette-free, I smell that shit and it’s just “Jesus Christ, it was THAT BAD?!?!?!” This house smells like they were curing rotted ham in it. I threw away nearly twenty years of money and health on that trash. Never again. Focus: Were/are you a smoker or lived with people who were? Did you manage to quit or are still active? Or, general discussion around nicotine and cigarette smoking.