Quote Originally Posted by rowhard
Oh boy, bandit's got his ride.
Someone here posted about taking their car into a dealer friend or something and they used a ozone machine that takes out all the smells. Don't know much about it but it sounded pretty cool at the time and it might be something for you to might check into.

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That was me, John. My VX had a weird sweet, sour, blehhh smell when it was delivered to me. The ozone generator got rid of the smell completely...

...until it came back. I was considering getting new carpet, but it ended up being unnecessary. When I had the new stereo installed, they removed my driver's seat to do some wiring. Underneath the seat was a cracked plastic bottle of some cheap Chinese "Barbie" perfume for little girls!

Threw away the kiddie perfume = no more smell.

My guess is, an ozone generator will work wonders for cigarette smoke. Industrial ozone generators are used to remove smoke smells from buildings with fire damage, and also used to "clean up" hotel rooms. Give it a shot!