Cigarette Stench
How do I get rid of cigarette stench stuck to "hard" objects?
Situation: My mother spent the last many years of her life sitting in her kitchen or den chain-smoking cigarettes and listening to her radio & TV talk programs. She only lit one match a day, for her first cigarette, lighting all the rest with the last butt. I have several boxes of stuff (including pictures in frames, oil paintings, tea pots and other ceramic-like things) that I inherited when she died ~10 years ago. The boxes have been in open storage (open boxes in open & airy barn) since then, in hopes that the cigarette stench would go away. It's helped tone the stench down a lot but not enough that I'd want to have any of the items in my house the way they still stink.
Situation: My mother spent the last many years of her life sitting in her kitchen or den chain-smoking cigarettes and listening to her radio & TV talk programs. She only lit one match a day, for her first cigarette, lighting all the rest with the last butt. I have several boxes of stuff (including pictures in frames, oil paintings, tea pots and other ceramic-like things) that I inherited when she died ~10 years ago. The boxes have been in open storage (open boxes in open & airy barn) since then, in hopes that the cigarette stench would go away. It's helped tone the stench down a lot but not enough that I'd want to have any of the items in my house the way they still stink.
