I still remember when it was okay to smoke inside hospitals. Fun times...
When I quit, it took just a few weeks to recover my sense of smell, and I wish it didn't because my house reeked of acrid smoke for months. Even my clean clothes smelt like unwashed smoked ass, it was sickening.

Noone could smell anything from smoking so much, the smoke stank paradox

Wish I could still buy one of those.

Even as a kid I always liked the smell

And the cold tobacco doesn't bother me either

However there's one tobacco smell I don't like, when someone smoked a cigaret (in cold weather) very fast before boarding the train/bus. It's a very strong, musky smell

At one of my first jobs in an office, everyone had an ashtray at their desk and there was always someone smoking at any given time throughout the day. Same with the breakroom. Sometime around then was when they started making people go to the breakroom to smoke, then a few years later it moved to having to go outside, which just meant walking through the cloud of smoke surrounding the door to get inside. Well, at least one thing has changed for the better since then. 😄

I quite a pack a day habit 12 years ago and one of the first things I noticed when my sense of taste and smell returned was how aweful smokers smelled when they'd walk into a building after a cigarette. I had thought the smell was off me within maybe 10 minutes but I found out quick that the smell never really goes away. Feels like a previous life thinking I smoked because I can't see myself ever smoking even a single cig for the rest of my life because it's so revolting to me now. Oddly enough, however, sometimes I'll see someone light up a fresh cig in a movie or something and I'll get this strong 2-3 second craving for a smoke. It's so strange how even over 12 years since my last one, I still get these strange urges for a cig by seeing someone of TV light one up.

I was born in the early 80s. Yes I remember a time when so many people smoked and indoor smoking was extremely common.

Even children's places were ok for adults to smoke in. You know on how many arcade bars today they have cup holders bolted onto the machines for people to put their drinks (alcoholic or otherwise)? Back in the 80s and 90s, they had the same thing in many of those arcades... but they were bolted on ashtrays.

The smells haven't gone away, you're just acclimated now

i’m old enough to remember smoking sections on airplanes. Not to be dramatic but, I felt like I was going to die!

Since my colleagues have missed the invention of Deodorant and washing themselves I'd beg to differ.