second hand smoke and car exhaust

[superattackpea]

I hope i'm just being a hypochondriac but i'll ask anyway.

today i rode in the passenger seat of a car with someone who smokes, he had either five or six cigarrettes total on the trip and i was wondering if this will cause me any permanent damage, im not sure if it makes any difference or not but we both had our windows down. i should also mention i'm asthmatic.

our destination was the praking lot outside a racecar track (settin up a booth for the military). we weren't around for the actual race but im still wondering how bad it was for my health being there for seven hours with exhaust fumes from the carts they use to transport people back and forth along with the many smokers passing by there.

any insight you can offer is greatly appreciated as well as any tips repair whatever might have been harmed. thank you

[crystalfresh]

I suppose if you want to get more technical the smoke is tiny particles that get caught in the lung. Little hairs will lift the larger particles back to your throat and then you will swallow them. After that you digest them. At that point your body will either pee or poop out the microscopic, actually this will be smaller than microscopic, but anyway trace amounts will flush with in 24 hours. Yes, completely out of you. :)

[crystalfresh]

No long term damage. The windows being open would reduce exposure. Either way short term exposure with the windows open or closed would not have caused long term harm.

Breathing in fumes and smoke is as you know not good for you. Being out doors makes it much better. Staying in clean air for a few days should allow your body to completely remove what ever you breathed in. But chanced are most things like smoke and fumes are out of you with in a few hours.