Would a smoke extractor like this work ?

Smoking inside is simply not an option for me unless I can get the smoke outside efficiently. I do have a "technique" that works if I don't smoke often but still, it takes 2 to 3 days to get rid of the smell completely each time and it involves keeping the windows opened which is not exactly what you want in February when you live in Montreal :D.

I wonder if something like this would be powerful enough to take all the smoke outside if I sit close to enough when smoking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9e_XkgdQUE

Any thoughts ?

This isn't necessarily a direct answer to your question, but in my pickup, I use a Csonka Smoker Cloaker. I turn it on during the blessed event, and let it run about 24 hours afterward. Very effective. They have other lines available for the home in different sizes. If you live in California, you will have to be...mmm...creative...in getting one, as the tree huggers get all spastic when you mention the words 'ozone generator'...

Im a smoke extractor, send me those cigars and I will smoke extractor the smoke right out of those babies...

That should work - I mean, what was your original setup that took days? I have two Hunter air purifiers that I use mostly to redirect air towards the window, but a window with 2 sets of dual window fans in it seemed to work just fine for me, two of us could smoke inside and nobody could tell the difference the next day...

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Originally Posted by EricGagne

I wonder if something like this would be powerful enough to take all the smoke outside if I sit close to enough when smoking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9e_XkgdQUE

Any thoughts ?

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After I viewed the YouTube link, I looked at related videos and found that a few people make "somewhat HEPA" air purifiers using 20-inch box fans and high-quality 20x20 furnace filters taped over the fan grill. The fans run around $20, the filters vary in price with their rated effectiveness. Might be a good year-round solution that doesn't require snaking a dryer-vent hose out the window. (I may make one of these at some point for the office in my new apartment, possibly with a simple wooden enclosure hiding the works and providing rails for the filter to slide into.)

While I was on YouTube I also saw something that might be useful for increasing RH in a garage, man-cave or other enclosed smoking shelter: an old-fashioned swamp cooler, using the same sort of box fan. (Or make a combination unit, with filter on one side of the fan and cooling mat on the other.) In winter you might want to run it on low speed 24/7, so it humidifies the air without make the room a lot colder than it already is; during a hot summer, crank it up on high speed.