to worry about log burner smoke in my house

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Wonder if anyone has had similar. I have long covid and thought the smell of burning was one of the long covid symptoms, but now my daughter can smell it too - we have realised that it is the evenings, and coming in through the loft room windows and back door. I know normal people don't have open windows at this time of year, but I am a fresh air freak esp after having had trouble breathing when I had covid.
We have realised that the wood burner the neighbours (detached) had fitted in the summer is going on in the evenings and the smoke comes into our house through our loft room windows.
It stinks, it is really acrid, it catches on the back of my throat and makes me cough.
The neighbours are lovely so I don't know what I should do. I don't want to be a nuisance but I am getting fed up with the burn at the back of my throat, it'e really horrible, and the smell.
Is this something I should worry about, or just try to ignore it?

YANBU. Our upstairs back rooms fill with the smell, and surfaces get covered with dust, from next doors log burner, the chimney is directly level with our windows, there was a thread the other day with lots of interesting links about the dangers & pollution.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/property/4191881-my-neighbours-hate-my-wood-burner?pg=1

This one was a good link showing air pollution & you can zoom in on your own area. Someone did clarify how close to an area a sensor had to be to show a colour but you would have to read the thread.
bristol.maps.sensor.community/#6/52.058/-1.287

What comes out of a swept chimney should not be that bad, assuming they are burning clean and very dry wood. Have a polite word to see what can be done.

Nope, don't ignore it. Need to shut your windows. Really bad for you. We had to move but it's got bad round here now.

Very poor for your health, I'm afraid www.google.com/amp/s/www.standard.co.uk/futurelondon/theairwebreathe/wood-burners-health-impacts-a4345416.html%3famp

My neighbour who is otherwise lovely has a woodburner in her kitchen extension. The top of the flue is directly outside of my bedroom window meaning I cannot open my window if she is using the blasted thing.

Don’t ignore it. Firstly do you have CO detectors? We had issues with our neighbours log burner filling our living room with smoke. They had to get the fitter back out to it but I suspect it was fit by someone not HETAS registered. Anyway, it got sorted in the end. You should defiantly let your neighbour know what’s going on. Ask what they are burning on it.

ok will have a word. Will a Carbon monoxide detector go off if there is a health risk?

There's more to air pollution that carbon. UK women have the highest rate of toxins in breast milk related to formaldehyde in flameproofing, foam and furnishings and carpets and we spend five hundred million a year deliberately poisoning our homes with scents and cleaning products, so we can enjoy carcinogens, asthma, cardio vascular disease and dementia from NOCs, fine particulates and more, and buy the government approved 'eco friendly' modern stoves, giving out as much pollution as a fleet of 25 ten year old diesel trucks. (Times summary of various publications, 2019)