[DrunkSmurf]

Whoa, Nelly!

I formerly scoffed at assertions in ebay postings that the product came "from a smoke free home."

The statement struck me as touchy-feely or gimmicky.

Boy, was I wrong.

I opened a plastic baggy containing a smurf I won and was blasted with the residue of about five packs of the Marlborough Man.

Either that or traveller smurf and swimmer smurf (small mold) are chain smokers.

[SMURFYSTEVE1]

Funny you say that i was a smoker till the 1st of september this year i gave up and its been hard but i wont go back. i gave up for me and my familys health and my smurfies. I dont want yellow smelly smurfs.
but smoke residue can sertainly stick around. sorry to here about the smoking smurfs.
It dos make you wonder if sellers just put that to make you feel more comftable with bidding? I dont know other than the smell is there any other way to tell if they are from a smoke free home??
Smurfy regards, Steve.

[Fram]

Good for you Steve!

I haven't had experience with badly smoking Smurfs yet (although I once saw one on a flea market that was probably burned and just crumbled), but I have noticed the text on auctions that it came from a smoke free home. I thought that would be more important for plush Smurfs, but now it looks like even the little PVC buggers can be affected.

[SA Smurfette]

and was blasted with the residue of about five packs of the Marlborough Man.

Either that or traveller smurf and swimmer smurf (small mold) are chain smokers.

I love the way you put things Tim

I used to think it was a weird thing to put in an Ebay listing but everyone seems to to do. I quite often buy beanie kids off Ebay for my daughter and lot of those seller state it's from a smoke free home and kept in a snaplock bag. I don't think i'd want a stinking plush toy or smurf for that matter

Sorry to hear about your smurfs Hopefully they might smell better after a bath

Raelene

[attombomb7]

ugh!!

[DrunkSmurf]

Yeah, it was crazy.

Swimmer smurf even had nicotine stains in the crevises between his toes and neck and shoulders.

I washed them with lemon dishwasher detergent and now they have a strange lemony-tobacco scent.

Maybe she smoked with the smurf in her mouth.

[Guest]

Maybe she smoked with the smurf in her mouth.

I really struggle with smoke. Because I have a slight paralysis in my face one of my eyes doesn't close properly and smoke quite badly affects this eye. I can take a smokey smurf out of a parcel and my eye starts pricking even before I smell the damn thing. I would imagine it is important for asthma sufferers also to know that something isn't going to stink. I find it weird though that with some smokers you would struggle to guess that they smoke because you really can't smell it.

[Margaret]

I to have received smurfs that smell like smoke
It is very hard to get the smell off of them I soak them
and and also clean them with dish soap and if the are really bad toothpaste but I dont know how good that is to use on them I alway worry that the paint will come off the smurf .

[Rachel]

Hi guys, yes it is noticable how many auctions now state this. I have to admit I am a smoker but I never smoke in the smurf room, a GOLDEN rule.

I think a few of you (I know I was) might be a bit suprised to know that at the smurf passion, it seemed almost everyone was smoking in the hall where the smurfs were. I did go outside as this is what I would do normally but I was quite shocked to see everyone smoking whilst handling their smurfs.

[Margaret]

Wow in NY smoking is banned I dont think you are aloud to smoke inside anywhere any more except for your own home

[SMURFYSTEVE1]

Yes that was very strange wernt it Rach? As you just said we went out side when we wanted a fag. I must admit i didnt like the idea of all that smoke and ash all over them poor helpless little smurfs. i couldnt do that to other peoples stuff. I mean if i was selling somthing i wouldnt like people blowing smoke and ash all over what i had to sell. They all seemed very relaxed about it over there. Well mine are all smoke free now i give up and they all seem a lot happyer now.
Smurfy regards, Steve.

[Guest]

Yes it should have been called "Smurf Fog" instead of Passion!

[eggie smurf]

Wow in NY smoking is banned I dont think you are aloud to smoke inside anywhere any more except for your own home

Margaret - same in California and Delaware -- I'm sure there are more states now that have a smoking ban but I don't know what they are (I rather love going into places and having it smoke-free though...I have horrible allergies and breathing troubles)

[Guest]

We went to a 40th Birthday Party back in June and when we left after an evening of partying we couldn't work out what was different about it, it had been a really pleasant experience. Then we realised it was because no one was smoking. My friend whose birthday it was has MS so I don't know whether that had anything to do with no one smoking, but it was certainly a very different experience.

[Syd Smurf]

There'ssmoking bans everywhere in Australia too...they are even banning them in pubs and clubs too which wouldn't go down to well with a lot of people.

[Margaret]

eggie smurf

I am happy about the smoking ban . I had smoked for 16 years and now have been smoke free for 3 years . When I smoked I didnt relize how bad everything smelled from it . I never smoked inside my house thank goodness or I would need all new things.

[Margaret]

SYD & DYAR

Clubs and bars in NY are baned as well I know a lot of people were not happy with that when they first started the New York's No Smoking Law .
I know we do have cigar lounges and you can smoke in them but other then that I dont think anywhere else is aloud

[Guest]

In our town pubs and clubs in the UK although they get very smokey I think that we have a bigger problem with our drink culture. When I went to Brussels last summer with Todd I was embarrassed because you could spot Brits a mile off because they were loud, drunk and walking round in packs. I seriously think Britain has bigger problems with alcohol than smoking.

[eggie smurf]

I had smoked for 16 years and now have been smoke free for 3 years .

Good for you, Margaret It must make it a little easier to not want to smoke since you don't have to breathe it in public places too

[Tessa-Dennis]

Yes, you are right. The smokey, smelly Smurfs are disgusting. Especially if you are a non-smoker it might even want to make you

At this moment there is a box in the garage as well, I took it straight into the garage when I opened it not to smell up the whole house and they will be banned there for a few weeks, although I do feel sorry for them

We travel to Belgium a lot as it is close by and I like the atmosphere there and the accent But smoking in Belgium is a big problem and it seems everybody does it. It is very common in Belgium to smoke in restaurants, bars, flea markets or whatever. The only place I noticed non smoking so far is the cinema.

Hopefully you'll be able to clean them up.