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Passive Smoking and your Cat
Just like a human being our cat's can very sensitive to smoke from cigarettes. Sometimes you may notice your cat leaving the room if it becomes too smoky, that is because your pet is sensitive to the smell and the smoke. It is comparable to passive smokers in a room full of smoking people, it can be difficult to breathe and cause watering eyes and nose. Importantly passive smoking in cats has been linked to lymphoma cancer.
Cat owners who smoke could be putting their pet's health at risk; these findings were published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, shows that tobacco smoke is a cat killer. Just like human's cats, which live in smoking households run the risk of developing lymphoma cancer.
The university study was research over a seven-year period in which 190 cats were studied finding a correlation between the amount to smoke in the household and the increased risk of lymphoma. Lymphoma is the most common killers of cats in Australia. The best treatment for this is chemotherapy, which is an aggressive medical treatment, it is costly and may not always work.
This topic has also been researched in relation to dogs in passive smoking environments with similar findings, similarly the dogs risk to lung cancer are increased.
This study is warning for our cat's fragile health, it may be easy for us to ignore our own health issues, but maybe we can change our habits for our pet's health.
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