The study involved nearly 8,000 children in Northern Finland, 87 of whom were mixed-handed, who completed questionnaires at ages 7 and 8, and again at 15 and 16. Since 90 percent of the population is right-handed, they compared both ambidextrous and left-handed individuals to this norm â right-handedness.
Best Answer: You can smell like cigarette smoke if you, your clothes, or the furniture you are sitting upon has been exposed to people that smoke. If someone uses perfume or cologne and rubs up against you, some of that scent will linger on you. It's gotten many a man in trouble.
Smelling smoke, when nobody else around you can, is most likely a form of olfactory hallucination known as phantosmia, or an olfactory dysfunction known as parosmia. In the case of phantosmia, it is the perception of a smell in the absence of any physical odors.