Can you receive herpes from someone infected through smoking a cigarette behind them?

Do you mean genital herpes? Or maybe the herpes virus that is found in cold sores?

If you mean genital, then no. That must be genital contact.

If that person has a cold sore on their mouth, then yes it is a possibility.

Agree with J_9 (unless you are getting rather kinky with your smoking habits - a la Monica Lewinski :eek: ). Someone once asked me if it were possible to either get pregnant or to get an STD sitting on a toilet seat - I told them you most definitely could - but it would likely be somewhat uncomfortable for both you and your lover... ;)

Herpes simplex type 1 (HSV-1) is usually associated with oral (mouth) lesions and type 2 (HSV-2) associated with genital lesions - but that's not always the case. The viruses are very closely related and you can transfer HSV-1 from your (or someone else's) mouth to your genitals by touching a cold sore and then touching your genitals - or through oral sex. Likewise, HSV-2 can be transferred from genitals to mouth in a similar manner through touch or oral sex. Shared oral objects - cigarettes, toothbrushes, silverware, etc - can possibly spread whichever virus (HSV-! Or 2) is residing in the infected person's mouth to yours. See this link for more info...

http://www.herpesonline.org/articles/herpes_virus.html

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Originally Posted by 06maryanna

Can you receive herpes from someone infected through smoking a cigarette behind them?

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I guess that would really all depend on what you are doing WHILE smoking that cigarette behind them! Okay, okay, I have a dirty mind. I guess it really is all in your syntactical interpretation, huh? :)

No. That's silly.

See a doctor about it