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Passive smoking can harm cats

Passive smoking affects cats – both cigarette and marijuana smoke

This is a reminder that passive smoking affects pets as much as it does people. I find that this is rarely discussed but it is a form of animal abuse that goes on silently, almost invisibly, in the background. The information should apply to all kinds of passive smoking; cigarette smoke and for instance cannabis. …

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Third-hand cigarette smoke and cat health

68% of smokers say that if their cat became ill through passive smoking they might stop

Most smokers (78%) know that their habit could harm their cats. Both this finding and the one in the title are disturbing because they mean that cat owners who smoke are willing to harm their cat for the sake of maintaining their habit. The pet insurer MORE TH>N carried out a survey on smokers and …

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Cat passive smoking is bad for a cat's health

Cats are at risk too if smoking at home causes children to acquire lung disease as adults

You may have read about it: an American study which recommends that smoking should be banned in the home because it concluded that smokers’ children are a third more likely to die from lung disease when they grow up. It is the first study to find this link. America banned smoking in social housing last …

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