Smoke smell in a flat below mine.

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Good day, everyone,
I have an uncommon question:
Man smokes in a balcony. Will the people, who are below him will smell that? Or just people who live above the man?
I guess warm air is going up, but how about a smell, diffusion says that molecules are moving disorderly, so I completely lost my mind whether smell can be smelled if you are below.
This is some kind a exercise, but I can't recognize which physics field it belongs to.

Thank you!
 
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bagofbones said:
warm air is going up
So long as it's warm --- which isn't long for smoke.
bagofbones said:
diffusion says
No breeze, a smoker can "perfume" a fairly large volume of air.
 
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Bystander said:
So long as it's warm --- which isn't long for smoke.

No breeze, a smoker can "perfume" a fairly large volume of air.
So the answer is yes? People below can smell that?