Dumbest ? ever: Lit matches smell & air toxicity to pets? (stomach, constantly)

[movintime]

My g/f accidentally lit a match in room to "deoderize, ahem, (from a Walgreens little regular matchbook cover) & didn't see cat was in room. Do I need worry of inhalation by cat, to air toxins, via one typical small lit red-headed match?

I immediatedly (about a few mins or so later) went it, smelled the burned out match, wasn't happy & hauled cat out to liv. room for better air (also had windows open in bedroom but curtain was shut when lit ).

Am I worrying for nothing or can one exposure, to such chemicals cause any respiratory/cardio/carcingogenic, etc. response? Or is it very unlikely?

I hate & BAN all cigarette smokers from my place, & yet next-door neighbor smokes & I argue w/ him all time.

Ok, I need you toxicology ppl to help.

I read all this about half-lives of air toxicity, etc. & drive my paranoid self nuts.

PS - Now I can't sleep, & I KNOW this goes down as "DUMBEST ? EVER"!

[catsmom21]

It's not dumb. If you it causes you concern, it causes you concern, that's all. I don't think one match lit for a few seconds has caused any harm to your beloved kitty.

Second hand smoke is another story, but you don't allow smoking in your home, so that is not a worry either.

I know someone who smokes in her home and her cat is constantly sick with one ailment or another, not just URI issues, though those are frequent, but stomach and intestinal problems too. That smoke has to land somewhere and much of it lands on the cat. When the cat washes, she ingests the nicotine and other additives from the smoke.

I have tried gently pointing out the correlation, but she does not want to see it and refuses to stop smoking inside.