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My roommate smokes and after a year of a few battles here and there she finally goes outside to smoke. I am unfortunately allergic to ciggarrette smoke and can not even be around someone who has had a smoke. She is allergic to perfumes and has the same problem. But she feels that she should be able to smoke in the apartment as she pays half the rent. I am the one who ends up paying the bills and then waiting for her to pay back her half. I never wear perfume because of her allergy. I know a few smokers and not a one of them smoke in their house, they all go outside to smoke. Now it is not her age cause they people I know are all around her age but they feel that their house stinks and therefore wont smoke in it. So our compromise is I close my bedroom door and put a towel under it when I go home for the weekends and she smokes in the house. I have washed walls and such but still don't understand why she has to smoke in the house. I wish she would quit as it is really expensive and she is always complaining she is broke but it is her life and as long as she doesn't smoke when I am around it is her problem. Does anyone else have this problem and how do you go about convincing someone to smoke outside all the time. I hate coming home here to a house I know has been smoked in and when I go away for a week I have to febreeze everything before I can sit in my own home. Any thoughts or sugggestions? I dont want to be on her back to quit, just quit smoking in the house.