AR-News: (CA) Smoking and pets

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

There's ample scientific evidence to suggest that secondhand cigarette smoke 
can cause cancer in pets, says the New York Post. "And your furry friends 
don't just inhale smoke; the smoke particles are also trapped in their fur and 
ingested when they groom themselves with their tongues." A study published in the 
American Journal of Epidemiology found that dogs in smoking households had a 
60 per cent greater risk of lung cancer; a different study in the same journal 
showed that long-nosed dogs, such as collies or greyhounds, were twice as 
likely to develop nasal cancer if they lived with smokers.




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