Covid and second hand smoke

[Mixedupmuddle]

Does anyone know much about the risk from second hand smoke? I couldn’t find anything newer than last August (link below).

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/08/21/can-you-get-coronavirus-cigarette-smoke/%3foutputType=amp

But the general consensus seems to be if you’re close enough to smell their exhaled smoke, even if the smoke itself won’t infect you, they could have exhaled Covid particles that you could inhale.

We were walking today and were about 6m behind the people infront when we got wafts of cigarette smoke. Is this a concern? I know there isn’t really a definite answer but maybe people have experienced similar and been okay.

I assume that means that if you are close enough to anyone that you could have smelled smoke if they were smoking then you are close enough to catch covid IYSWIM.

Isn't Covid carried on droplets that rapidly fall to the floor? Cigarette smokes kind of just wisps about all the over the place.

Surely this applies to walking behind anyone - smoker or not, the difference is that you can smell the exhaled air of a smoker, whereas you can't smell the exhaled air of a non-smoker. I don't think the presence of second hand smoke makes it more likely that you will catch covid.

True but still a worry.

@NannyR

Surely this applies to walking behind anyone - smoker or not, the difference is that you can smell the exhaled air of a smoker, whereas you can't smell the exhaled air of a non-smoker. I don't think the presence of second hand smoke makes it more likely that you will catch covid.

Except that people actively blow smoke/e-cig vapour out, they don't just breathe it out gently like a normal breath.

And, of course, you're introducing smoke/vapour into the mix. Maybe the Covid virus sits on the smoke/vapour. Certainly, when people inhale a cig, they inhale deeper than just breathing, and they exhale harder. Plus they are exhaling something, not just breath.