Concerns about setting up a cigar room, future kids?

Hays

Hays

Gray4lines

This is my guess, but especially with tile floor, new paint, and clearly new furniture as well I bet you would never even know a cigar had been in the room.

Ken Light

All you'd have to worry about lingering is odor, and that's not anything harmful. And it looks like you wouldn't have any cloth or carpet or rug in there, so that's not even much of a concern.

Hays

Ken Light:

All you'd have to worry about lingering is odor, and that's not anything harmful. And it looks like you wouldn't have any cloth or carpet or rug in there, so that's not even much of a concern.

Yeah, basically everything there would get scrapped and the whole room redone, I guess I'm just being paranoid...I dunno, some kind of toxins getting into the paint on the walls or something? Never given a sh!t about it before, but when thinking seriously about having a kid I'm having to reconsider a few things.

letsgowithbob

I know there is most likely no actual issue. I know that it is probably fine as long as you primed with a good primer, and then painted, but having had a good friend lose his baby to SIDS, and then finding out about the much higher rates of SIDS around smokers, I wouldn't do it, especially if you are year and a half or so out. It makes no sense. I understand my stupidity, but I always took a shower, and changed my clothes after a cigar, before I held my infants. I know it's stupid, I'm just anal about that sort of thing.

rsherman24

Small exhaust fan if at all possible. I installed a $60 fan behind the bar when I was refinishing my basement. I smoke a cigar every night in the winter and even the wife can not detect a smell of cigars. I put the ashtray right in front of the fan when I smoke, but I can smoke inside while it is single digits outside and not worry about lingering smoke in the house.

jgibv

Rain

letsgowithbob:

I know there is most likely no actual issue. I know that it is probably fine as long as you primed with a good primer, and then painted, but having had a good friend lose his baby to SIDS, and then finding out about the much higher rates of SIDS around smokers, I wouldn't do it, especially if you are year and a half or so out. It makes no sense. I understand my stupidity, but I always took a shower, and changed my clothes after a cigar, before I held my infants. I know it's stupid, I'm just anal about that sort of thing.

I'd like to see some studies...I'm not buying it. What if smoke from someone else drifts through an open window, attaches to your paint, seeps through to the wall, lingers for a year....also, what if a meteor hits your house? The cause of SIDS is unknown, so you can't attribute it to anything. Well, except sudden and infants. Breathing kills you too. Don't mean this as a personal attack, buts just throwing around sids is irresponsible without showing supporting data and studies. People that never smoked have lost kids to SIDS. And the flu. SIDS means they have no idea.

Echambers

Ken Light

letsgowithbob:

I know there is most likely no actual issue. I know that it is probably fine as long as you primed with a good primer, and then painted, but having had a good friend lose his baby to SIDS, and then finding out about the much higher rates of SIDS around smokers, I wouldn't do it, especially if you are year and a half or so out. It makes no sense. I understand my stupidity, but I always took a shower, and changed my clothes after a cigar, before I held my infants. I know it's stupid, I'm just anal about that sort of thing.

That's around smokers, as in people actively smoking around the child. Not lingering smoke odor. I get being crazy around your kid, especially as long as you're not endangering other kids (like anti-vaxers) but I wouldn't pass it on to others.

letsgowithbob

Rain

Thanks, I will check that out!

First Warrior

The ceiling would be my only issue. Is it paintable or that sprayed on texture stuff? Looks like a double hung window, just right for an exaust fan. If you have a garage it may be more cost effective to create a space out there for smoking.

Amos Umwhat

You should be fine. Regarding SIDS, as someone who has taken part in the resuscitation, or attempted resuscitation of several SIDS infants over the years, in nearly ever case the child was laid down wrong, and usually in bed with a parent. I've never heard anyone say that because someone smoked in a room before it was remodeled and repainted that the baby stopped breathing. I'd be more concerned that the paint hadn't fully cured.

avengethis

I use a fan tucked into a double hung window in my den. I also have the ashtray on the arm of the chair right in front of the window. There is no door sealing that room off and as long as I have the fan running before I light up, it pulls the smoke out and there is no lingering smell left behind.

youngryan216

Hays, I think the fact that you are already considering the health of your unborn child to this degree proves you are going to be a good dad when the time comes. Good luck with the room and the baby making.

KCW

J.S.

My only issue would be redoing the room again so soon. Added work, and I am cheep. But that is just me.

D Fresh

benhanks

Hays