Tell Me About Cigarette Smoke Detectors

I’d have thought a high-powered water pistol at close range, ie the face and cigarette for every infringement would be a major disincentive to sparking up. And/or confiscation of all materials necessary to infringe the rules.

Any whining about ‘infringement of personal rights’ would result in perpetrator being locked out of the house in their bedclothes.

Your nose?  Its easy enough to smell and very distinctive

Cigarette smoke will trigger almost any optical detector, but the enterprising mind will just wrap it in a plastic bag. But they stink and it should be immediately obvious that someone has lit up just by using your nose.

New rule. Bedroom doors are only for non-smokers.

1. You would be able to smell it more obviously.

2. Cheaper than an alarm.

3. Harder to circumvent than an alarm.

4. Important life lesson that actions have consequences.

What are they smoking?

Sign her up to Quitters Inc.

(Stephen King short story about a company's brutal but effective method to help one stop smoking)

As an ex smoker why not speak to them and come to a compromise, like only vaping in their room

Less chance of a fire, smells better and can help them to quit cigarettes altogether

Get my mum around

Just get a push-button alarm. You know damn well when she's smoking. Press the button. No need to tell her it was just you doing it, let her think there's a sensor in her room.

Thanks for the input people.

We're a fostering household so, much as I'd like to remove her door and employ a fire house it'll possibly be frowned upon by the childrens' rights officer.

Also, I'm anosmic so I can't smell anything at all. Which doesn't help.

There are room searches and turning out of pockets with destruction of contraband.

It's just tobacco (so far).

If she wants to smoke she can smoke. We can't stop her. Just the rules are - not in the house or garden.

I just want a deterrent hence the alarm idea. Our ceilings are pretty high so you'd need a stepladder to get up to nobble it.

Sprinkler system. 🙂 Any local smoke detector will surely just be disabled before sparking up. Ours are wired into the burglar alarm.

I've never understood smoking in enclosed spaces. How hard is it to pop outside? "I really like my bedroom / car but it's just not brown and sticky enough and it smells too nice." I used to do site visits to a branch in Bristol and they had an office containing all the smokers. It was truly grim, working on a PC and your hands would come away sticky just from the keyboard. If we had to send a courier to uplift a machine you could tell where it came from before we'd opened the box.

My son will vape in his room - the lot of them don't think it's 'smoking' - We don't accept it (bear in mind it's an adult son and not fostering). We can smell it, and it does cause my wife's asthma to flare up.

Any chance of a smoking shed in the garden? It'd be a nice gesture.

As above, why not allow in the garden provided butts are disposed of properly? Make it easier to do the right thing. I assume at this time of year windows will mostly be shut.

Either that or a kitchen roll tube, an elastic band and a packet of Bounce tumble dryer sheets.