When Smoke Gets in your Eyes

I rent an apartment upstairs from the landlord who smokes - we each have our own forced air oil furnace - but I get a smoke smell (cigarette) and occassionaly an oily chemical smell in addition to alot of dust and soot- I'm trying to convince the landlord to get the furnace professionally serviced before this winter - but he says he can't smell anything and isn't keen to look into it. In the meantime i'm trying to work out what would be the best filter for my furnace to cut down on these odors? I have some carbon impregnated register filters but i'm curious whether a electrostatic and carbon filter combo or a merv12 filter would be better?
Thanks.

You are probably not going to make much of an impact with any kind of normal filtration. You will probably have to get a clean effects or something like that utilizing multiple technologies and that may be cost prohibitive in a rental situation. Sorry for the bad news I have just seen too many people spend money and still have the problem they started with.
There are systems used in bars and restaurants that will eliminate most of by products of smoke and VOC's but they are pretty expensive which is why you only see them in nicer places here is a link to one brand http://www.purennatural.com/fs.php?center=smoke-eaters/smokeeater.php there are a few others check for some reviews on line