A member asked:

I'm allergic to cigarette smoke. a man was smoking next to my car. it was closed but some smoke got inside it. can this cause lung/nasal/heart cancer?

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No: Smnoking as a cause of lung cancer requires a large amount of smoke inhaled almost directly from smoking several pcks/day over a prolonged period of time. The occassional exposure to small amts of cigarette smoke will cause no problems. As bad as cancer, overexposure to smoke causes, elastase produced with emphysema and aortic aneurysms.

Answered 6/11/2014

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