PASSIVE smoking may be as bad for pets as it is for humans. Researchers have found that cats who live with cigarette smokers are twice as likely to develop a deadly form of cancer called feline lymphoma.
Antony Moore of Tufts University in Grafton, Massachusetts, and his colleagues studied 180 cats treated at a Tufts veterinary hospital between 1993 and 2000.
They found that cats exposed to second-hand smoke were more than twice as likely to get the disease. Cats living with two smokers had four times the risk (American Journal of Epidemiology, vol 156, p 268).
Moore thinks…
