1) I did not disagree with the rest of your list. Several good, smart points there. I'd listen to most of your advice as written in your original post.
2) I am obviously a smoker. No "smoking out" required.
3) If I were not a smoker, I would not want to buy a car from a smoker simply because of the smell. It lingers for years. The smell of mildew would overpower the smell of smoke before I could ever get rid of it.
4) I've owned and driven nothing but new cars (first owner) since 1995, and I have never, ever smoked in any of them.
I need to go offline for a while, so I'll check in later....
I’m not looking to shaft smokers. I’m just speaking to the observations I’ve made while buying and looking to buy used cars. Smokers drive cars harder than non-smokers, as a general observation, and they don’t keep on top of some maintenance items like oil leaks, they are more willing to live with them.