It’s because as the hot air rises, cool air comes in from all sides of the fire. Your body blocks that air from one side, so the prevailing current of cool air feeding the fire is biased towards you and it carries the smoke with it.
Imma sell a “smoke diverter” that’s a wide piece of cardboard on a stand. Put it opposite your seat at the fire, boom, no more smoke.
Ancient humans would understand this and I think that’s cool.
If your campfire is that smokey, and laying down that much, it isn’t hot enough.
And probably wet.
I’m not sure how many people can relate, but this is a thing.
It is a thing because of physics https://youtu.be/WgxO7vhlF7A?si=8R7hNf4eW7tp_9v1
White rabbit, white rabbit!
Smoke is bad for you… mmmkay.
I don’t think anyone has ever said otherwise.
Source? Don’t let this man distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.