If you can smell smoke does it affect you still?

If you can smell smoke then you are inhaling it. The smell is the smoke.

However, if its across a distance, the effect will not be bad.

Many gases have no scent. Certain pollutants don't affect you as much as others, if it were a cigarett it would be second hand smoke. Not as damaging as first hand, but it certainly does not benefit you. Yet things like insence can do quite the opposite.