I lived in a an apartment that even though I did not smoke, previous tenants had and all my belongings started smelling like smoke. I’d shower and dry off in a towel smelling like smoke. my hair smelled of smoke within an hour or two of washing it.
I obviously was breathing in second hand smoke. I constantly had a scratchy throat allergy type symptoms while living there. I have no clue if it’s effected my insides in other ways.
The office said they painted and cleaned carpet and i had them set off deodorizer twice only to have smell return a week or so later. So glad when I moved from there.
I’d imagine the owners were glad you did too.
I was on a submarine years ago. The worst job was cleaning the cigarette gunk out of the precipitators.
What you describe is not possible.
But there was the ceiling :(