RE: Smoking hunter V.S Non smoker
I think it has a big affect on staying scent free. I smoke but when it comes to hunting or anything related to hunting I dont light up. My hunting clothes etc have never been exposed to any kind of different scent. I was canoeing down the scenic part of the pocomoke river one time, and I smelt a strong order of a cherry flavored pipe. eventually a 1/4 mile or so down stream we ran across a couple that had beached for a picnic and hanging from the guys mouth was a pipe. When you put any kind of smoke or other smell into a fresh wooded area your gonna smell it. and I know if I could smell it a 1/4 mile or so down stream the big boy in the area smelt it a mile or two down stream. So as far a smoking while deer hunting Id say NO. the non-smoker is ahead of the game.