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I don't care about your statistical "reality." My reality is I sold my house for my asking price, which was higher than the most recent sale of the identical home on the same street that had been owned by non-smokers.

That is my reality.

My house neither smelled nor was filthy and you are an arrogant prig for even suggesting such a thing about another person.

There was no brownish tinge on my once white walls, because my walls were still white, which was evident when I took down the pictures that had been in the same place since the walls had been painted 5 or 6 years previous.

Both my husband and I smoked in our home for the entire 11 years we lived there and had 2 dogs also, and at one time even had several cats.

My reality is that I received the price for my house I was asking.

Reality just doesn't seem to be to your liking - what a shame.

I have smoke eaters all through the house. I have ceiling fans. I burn candles. Now......when I have a non-smoker come in, they can't believe that I even SMOKE!

And in the winter, you can go outside and smell the great smell of wood fires burning. To me, the smell of wood fires and cigarettes are wonderful!

http://www.newbooksinfo.com.au/

Found a lengthy book review critiquing the anti-smoker movement. You have to see the book cover.
Excerpt below.

"Rampant Antismoking Signifies Grave Danger presents an examination of the antismoking mentality in greater, multidimensional context. While there have been many tens of thousands of "studies" concerning the phenomenon of smoking, there has essentially been no analysis of the antismoking mentality. The book's discussion covers biological (epidemiologic), psychological, social/relational, moral, legal, and philosophical/spiritual considerations in indicating that domineering materialism does not reflect some great conspiracy but, rather, a regression into "rule by superficiality." Most participants in the materialist assault have no idea what they are fueling. The mentality, or cult framework, is best characterized as incompetent and ignorant - lacking in multidimensional insight. It is by this superficial or shallow reasoning, and during a period when almost all manner of questionable conduct has been "normalized" by the same framework, that tobacco-smoking alone has been manufactured into the great "taboo" of the time: Antismoking has been concocted into a symbol of moral rectitude for morally floundering individuals and societies, i.e., moral fakery - a similar, troubling theme was also evident in Nazi Germany. Smoking has been manipulated into a projection point for all manner of contorted reasoning: It has been made a contemporary scapegoat, a fashionable bigotry, fulfilling a dysfunctional need of an unthinking populus. It is highlighted that this situation reflects a metaphysical crisis. Many nations are already in dire straits, and with the worst yet to come".

Hahahah well I am glad you got your asking price, but even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while, and a broken clock is right twice a day...

You can play devils advocate all day long, but it won't fly. I fix and sell houses, I know dozens of others that do as well, and in fact know one who does 4+ a month... and they are can tell you the same thing... a house that smells of smoke and has tinted walls won't sell, except in hottest markets, quickly or for the same as a non smoking house.

No house that smells or is visibly dirty, regardless of the reason will sell for top dollar or as quickly as one that isn't. If you managed to keep your house this way good for you, Kudos.... I can tell you from experience the vast majority do not, and they don't sell fast or for as much either.

Westinghouse Scholarship grads come out of some the worst inner city schools, doesn't mean the schools aren't statitically inferior because they get a jem out the door once in a while either.