Can smelling smoke from a cigarette each day cause anything serious?

[Red]

There's this smoker in my building who lives under me and likes to smoke a lot so I ALWAYS smell the nasty smoke as I sleep and play. I tend to switch rooms now but can't it affect me as I sleep? What can happen? And I don't think my parents can do anything and I have relatives with a young girl coming for Christmas Break... Help?

 

[MarcusLaski]

I don't think smelling the residue or the after-smell can really affect you, but breathing the actual smoke can cause cancer, because you won't be breathing the harmful chemicals through a filter on the cigarette, basically, second-hand smoke.

 

[Philipdorton]

Almost 30% of tobacco related illness are caused by second hand smoke

 

[akash_mihir84]

Yes. Smelling smoke from cigarettes is called passive smoking. It is passive smoking and it is as dangerous as smoking itself.