once in a blue moon I will smoke a cigar in the family room and watch a dvd, and when the wife is away visiting relatives then I will smoke a cigar three or four nights out of the week she is gone in the family room. I simply have a slider door open. I have noticed hardly any smell the next day and when coming home from work the next night no smell at all and even my wife when she returned from her trip did not even know until I told that I smoked cigars in the house. As everything else, done in moderation I don't think will leave a permanent or lasting odor. Therefore if you only smoke one cigar a week during football season, it will smell at the time, but won't linger and I doubt it will be noticed the next day, I don't think that is too much to ask of your wife. Smoking a cigar in the house every day is one thing, but on occasion isn't a problem, why can't women just be a little more rational and a little less hypersensitive?