[MrFixr55]

You are right, Dale. The tar may be the stink. I have not tested the conductivity of nicotine, but as a militant non-smoker whose parents died at the age of 54 and 68 due to complications caused by smoking 5packs/day of Camel non-filtered cigarettes between them, I may easily misspeak. When Ms. Fixr and I bought our house from a family of smokers, we rented a rather powerful wallpaper steamer to remove the disgusting wallpaper, more disgusting cigarette residue mixed with the condensate from the steam (We were doing this in winter) rained down from the ceiling.

Early in my career, I was a clinical lab technologist in a NYC hospital. The histological examination of a smoker's lung vs a non-smoker's lung was absolutely an education.