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Do clothes absorb smoke if you walk past people smoking? does the smoke continue to be on the clothes after you pass? is it harmful?

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Dr. Creighton Wright answered

Specializes in surgery

Smoke odor: Permeates into cloth and may last. Avoid but unless a lot of exposure no harm.

Answered 1/29/2018

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