How to Remove Cigarette Butt Odor

Cigarette butts left in an ash tray can emit as much smoke and odor as a lit cigarette. You can reclaim your house and your sense of smell with a few odor removing tips.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

1. Fill your ash tray with enough baking soda to completely submerge the butts. Extinguish cigarette butts in the baking soda. The baking soda acts absorbs odor from the butts in the ashtray and the smoke in the air.
2. Launder your clothes and draperies frequently, including jackets or overcoats. The odor from your cigarettes permeates your clothing and your draperies and can make the stench linger long after the cigarette is out.
3. Clean furniture and carpets with baking soda. Liberally sprinkle the soda onto your furniture, rub it in, allow it to sit overnight and vacuum it off the next morning. Repeat this process until the smell disappears. Do this a few times a month to keep on top of the cigarette odor.
4. Fill a tub with a solution of 1 cup vinegar to 2 cups of water and a few scoops of baking soda. Use this solution to wash your walls and floors.
5. Leave your windows and doors open as much as possible. Leaving them open all day, every day, is the best option for ridding your house of the cigarette odor left behind by butts and smoke.
6. Simmer a pot of water filled with lemon, lime or orange slices on the stove all day. These citrus smells nmask the cigarette odor and purify the air.

Tips & Warnings

• Never use the vinegar solution to wash tile floors. It corrodes the sealant and can mark marble or granite tiles.