How to remove cigarette smells from a car interior

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Any ideas on the best way on how to remove cigarette smells from a car interior?

The car has leather seats and it is only a faint smell now but still annoying to a non smoker.
 
Find the smoker who left the smell there and rub their nose in it. Or is that dogs?
 
No matter how much you clean and steam clean the interior the smell will be in air ducts.
From this site:
Step 3. The Duct System
Now you are ready to tackle the air duct system and completely remove the smoke from it. Get a good bottle of odor neutralizer. You want to park your car in a well ventilated area. If the weather is nice then park it outside. Make sure the parking brake is set and start the engine up. You want the fan and the air conditioner to be on full blast. Do not have the air recirculate but make sure you have the fresh air on.

Step 4. The Air Intake
You want to look over at the front fender near the passenger side and find the air intake for the air conditioning and heater. Most of the time this is found just under the windshield, although it can be found in a different place depending on your car. You want to spray the deodorizer directly on the intake screen so it goes into the system. Go into the car to make sure it is getting into the system. The deodorizer will get the smoke out of the blower, evaporator, and ducting, all the places that smoke will stick.

Step 5. Clean the Heater
Now you want to set the heater onto full heat. Keep spraying the deodorizer into the same air intake until you don’t smell any smoke. With the heater on, the deodorizer will clean the ducting, blower, and heating core.

Step 6. Further Cleaning
If you find that this still does not remove the smoke, then you want to give your car an ozone shock treatment. This will kill any bacteria that will hold onto the smoke odors and denature any odor compounds so they are no longer smelly. It can take some time to get rid of the smoke odors. Most people really want to get rid of the cigarette smoke odor.
 
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