RE: Smoking hunter V.S Non smoker
It's kind of like others already said - any foreign scent to a deer may alarm them. I will say though that my buddy smokes like a chimeny in the tree and usually has to put out his smoke to shoot his deer. I've seen deer walk into him from downwind too. IMO, the bottom line is this: scent control may certainly have its place, but the wind is either right or wrong. That's hunting.