A recently purchased module lot arrived with the distinct smell of cigarette smoke permeating all of the items.  Of course it wasn't mentioned in the auction description!  I searched the forums here for known cures, but didn't find anything.  Shall I just hang these out on the clothesline then?

any help appreciated,
bonk!

Traveller wrote:The BEST solution I've found is to buy a box or two of Bounce fabric softener sheets.  Rub a sheet over the front cover, back cover, and each page.  You may have to repeat the process a couple of times, but it works.

The Bounce trick works pretty well but if it is as smoke-ridden as the items I picked up a few months ago, that might not even work.  I ended up using two Bounce sheets as bookends and then put a few in between the pages and then sealed them in a gallon size ziploc bag.  It took about two weeks for the smoke smell to finally disappear.

Of course now my First Fantasy Campaign smells like a gentle summer breeze but I guess it is better than smelling like Marlboro 100's.  

I own something called an Aranizer. It's a negative ion/ozone generator. Takes the smell out of anything by breaking down the substance causing the smell. The only side effect I've seen on old paper is that it sometimes brightens it just a tad if you leave it in a box with the Aranizer running for a long time. Barely noticable though, and even then only if you've had it on there for a long time.

You can probably rent one cheap from a local police station or someone who supplies them for the police. They use these things to kill the smell in trunks of cars when they find dead bodies in them.  

Just ask about an ozone generator. I used one once when I ran over a skunk and could not get the smell out of the car. Works miracles!  

It might not be worth the price unless you intend on buying one anyway, but it sure does work better than anything else I know of.

I had activated charcoal recommended to me by those in the know, somewhere in the "Interesting Non-TSR Items Currently on eBay" thread @ viewtopic.php?t=1197&highlight=activated+charcoal