cigarette smoking: You might fool your girl friend, but...... - 07/09/11 11:42 AM
I have done many posts on the consequences of smoking in homes. It makes me wonder how much cigarette smoking devalues a property. There was a time when nearly everyone smoked. Perhaps then smoking's effect on a home's value was minimal.Today's home buyer is usually quite concerned about finding out the house they are interested in buying has been smoked in. I have seen buyers walk away from heavily smoked homes.Sellers (or more likely their agents) go to great lengths to rid homes of the signs of smoking. Houses that have not had any clean-up done are pretty easy to tell.
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cigarette smoking: Cigarette Anyone? - 01/28/08 08:20 PM
I think this is the worst example of excessive smoking/deferred maintenance I have ever seen. This discoloration may represent hundreds, if not thousands, of packs of cigarettes and one has to wonder how much nicotine might actually be present. Should this be considered a hazardous waste site? Who is going to clean up this mess. Can it be painted over? Should it be painted over? According to "How Stuff Works," Sixty milligrams of nicotine (about the amount in three or four cigarettes if all of the nicotine were absorbed) will kill an adult, but consuming only one cigarette's worth of
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