Smoking in the Train Room

[Derwentbob]

Try snuff instead, it gives you that nicotine satisfaction and can be used for weathering as well...

[austinbob]

Try snuff instead, it gives you that nicotine satisfaction and can be used for weathering as well...

And if you sneeze you can weather everything on the layout in one go - result!!!

[mr bachmann]

NHS Warning , its been reviled  a new disease 'Layout Cancer' has been found and is on the increase ....


(NHS - nearest Hobby Shop    )

[N-Gauge-US]

Try snuff instead, it gives you that nicotine satisfaction and can be used for weathering as well...

I funnily enough, I have actually experimented with a little cigarette ash for creating realistic coal soot!

Thanks everyone, for your input Ultimately, I don't chain smoke over the locos and really only enjoy having the occaisional one in there (a sort of reward while watching the trains run). Given the comments, I don't think I'm in much danger of leaving enough tar residue about to make a big difference, but I thought it was worth asking around about

[Newportnobby]

Try snuff instead, it gives you that nicotine satisfaction and can be used for weathering as well...

And if you sneeze you can weather everything on the layout in one go - result!!!

As one who has smoked for 50 years I have seen, and had to clear up, the horrible yellow staining on walls, ceilings, windows, uPVC etc and it's very unpleasant, to say nothing of the smell it leaves on furnishings, soft or otherwise. Whenever youngsters/pets were around I always smoked outdoors and have continued doing that even when living alone despite any bad weather. (If I can't be bothered to get wet/blown about/snowed or hailed on then I obviously don't need a ciggy that much)
I am now in the situation where I need severe heart surgery (quite possibly the result of my smoking but heart disease is also hereditary in our family) so have managed to get down to single figure ciggies per day in the hope I can stop before that surgery.
As another cautionary tale (albeit not so serious), many years ago some friends purchased a house and I helped them strip 7 layers of wallpaper. With each layer coming off the smell of curry got stronger and stronger and. once we had the walls back to bare plaster, they had to be left for some 6 months before decoration could be started on.

[N-Gauge-US]

Try snuff instead, it gives you that nicotine satisfaction and can be used for weathering as well...

And if you sneeze you can weather everything on the layout in one go - result!!!

As one who has smoked for 50 years I have seen, and had to clear up, the horrible yellow staining on walls, ceilings, windows, uPVC etc and it's very unpleasant, to say nothing of the smell it leaves on furnishings, soft or otherwise. Whenever youngsters/pets were around I always smoked outdoors and have continued doing that even when living alone despite any bad weather. (If I can't be bothered to get wet/blown about/snowed or hailed on then I obviously don't need a ciggy that much)
I am now in the situation where I need severe heart surgery (quite possibly the result of my smoking but heart disease is also hereditary in our family) so have managed to get down to single figure ciggies per day in the hope I can stop before that surgery.
As another cautionary tale (albeit not so serious), many years ago some friends purchased a house and I helped them strip 7 layers of wallpaper. With each layer coming off the smell of curry got stronger and stronger and. once we had the walls back to bare plaster, they had to be left for some 6 months before decoration could be started on.

Very sorry to hear about your impending heart surgery, Newportnobby. Please take care of yourself and do as the mighty Doctor commands. I for one would be lost without your excellent advice and wide ranging knowledge. Wishing you a speedy recovery and a very merry Christmas,

Philip

[jonclox]

Try snuff instead, it gives you that nicotine satisfaction and can be used for weathering as well...

And if you sneeze you can weather everything on the layout in one go - result!!!

I am now in the situation where I need severe heart surgery (quite possibly the result of my smoking but heart disease is also hereditary in our family) so have managed to get down to single figure ciggies per day in the hope I can stop before that surgery.

I smoked heavily for about 50 years and my health problems now can be laid 90% at the sins of smoking.
Please please  Mick look at me and use it as an example o
f someone who wouldnt give it up till to late  a picture of  the inside of my lungs/heart would cause anybody to give up immediately if they have any sense 

[D1042 Western Princess]

As a non smoker  my contribution is of questionable value but I was wondering if there was any real difference between the smoke for a cigarette and the smoke from steam loco chimneys, via smoke generators, when it comes to pollution of the layout?

[Railwaygun]

As a non smoker  my contribution is of questionable value but I was wondering if there was any real difference between the smoke for a cigarette and the smoke from steam loco chimneys, via smoke generators, when it comes to pollution of the layout?

Very few N Gauge smokers - Arnold had a couple but long out of production.

OO/HO is another matter.

[Zogbert Splod]

[I smoked heavily for about 50 years and my health problems now can be laid 90% at the sins of smoking.
Please please  Mick look at me and use it as an example o
f someone who wouldnt give it up till to late  a picture of  the inside of my lungs/heart would cause anybody to give up immediately if they have any sense 

Not quite that long for me, before I gave up. 
Not preaching here, just telling... 
I got myself an ecig - not one of those SILLY things that looks like a cigarette - a proper one.  I didn't have total faith in the result but tried it...  Well, was I ever surprised!!!  After the FIRST suck on it I have never touched a ciggie again!  Seriously, it worked that well even for a doubter like me.  Four of my friends and both of my brothers have followed my lead and have stopped with no more problem than I had (none)...  One of that group has reduced the strength of the e-liquid down to 0 but still uses the device simply coz she likes the taste and says she would miss the action of smoking, I don't think that will last long, she will stop using it completely soon, I am sure.
The change in my general health has been amazing. 
As I said above, not preaching, but let me add this, the money saved over a while has bought me my car and various other items as well. 
It's been around three years now with never a moment of regret.

[weave]

[I smoked heavily for about 50 years and my health problems now can be laid 90% at the sins of smoking.
Please please  Mick look at me and use it as an example o
f someone who wouldnt give it up till to late  a picture of  the inside of my lungs/heart would cause anybody to give up immediately if they have any sense 

Not quite that long for me, before I gave up. 
Not preaching here, just telling... 
I got myself an ecig - not one of those SILLY things that looks like a cigarette - a proper one.  I didn't have total faith in the result but tried it...  Well, was I ever surprised!!!  After the FIRST suck on it I have never touched a ciggie again!  Seriously, it worked that well even for a doubter like me.  Four of my friends and both of my brothers have followed my lead and have stopped with no more problem than I had (none)...  One of that group has reduced the strength of the e-liquid down to 0 but still uses the device simply coz she likes the taste and says she would miss the action of smoking, I don't think that will last long, she will stop using it completely soon, I am sure.
The change in my general health has been amazing. 
As I said above, not preaching, but let me add this, the money saved over a while has bought me my car and various other items as well. 
It's been around three years now with never a moment of regret.

Hi,

Yesterday I promised SWMBO that I would buy one today for myself as a present to her. Apparently she doesn't want me to die.

Have had some advice, by one of her work colleagues, as to which one to buy but got confused. Sure they'll help in the shop but any advice appreciated.

Might only smoke around the Spanish layout when/ if it gets built as in real life their buildings look like they need a bit of white wash and my weathering skills are rubbish.

Cheers and Happy Christmas 

[D1042 Western Princess]

As a non smoker  my contribution is of questionable value but I was wondering if there was any real difference between the smoke for a cigarette and the smoke from steam loco chimneys, via smoke generators, when it comes to pollution of the layout?

Very few N Gauge smokers - Arnold had a couple but long out of production.

OO/HO is another matter.

What about Seuth etc though?
https://www.dccsupplies.com/cat-97/seuthe-steam-generators.htm

[njee20]

As a non smoker  my contribution is of questionable value but I was wondering if there was any real difference between the smoke for a cigarette and the smoke from steam loco chimneys, via smoke generators, when it comes to pollution of the layout?

Very few N Gauge smokers - Arnold had a couple but long out of production.

OO/HO is another matter.

What about Seuth etc though?
https://www.dccsupplies.com/cat-97/seuthe-steam-generators.htm

Surely they're basically just water vapour though, not actually smoke.

[D1042 Western Princess]

Well, they work on an oil based product and are called 'smoke generators' so I don't know more than that.

[Agrippa]

Gaugemaster sell them and they are oil based, they can also be
used to create smoking factory chimneys etc.