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Do you smoke? Need an incentive to quit? Do you have pets? Then that beloved pet just might be incentive you need to stop.
Researchers at University of Massachusetts have discovered that pets are affected by second-hand smoke.
Cats living with a smoker are two times more likely to get feline lymphoma than one that's not. After five years rate increases to three times as likely. When there are two smokers in home, chances of a cat getting feline lymphoma increases to four times as likely and after five years, three times rate of cats living in smokefree homes.
Dogs living in a smoking household have a 60 percent risk of getting lung cancer.
Long-nosed dogs, such as collies or greyhounds, are twice as likely to develop nasal cancer if they live with smokers.
Pets of all sizes and ages are affected. But especially small pets, very young and old.
Second-hand smoke contributes to a other pet ills as well. As a smoker exhales, air is filled with poisonous fumes.
A pets eyes can become irritated due to smoke's effects on tiny blood vessels found within eye.
