Second-hand Smoke Affects Your Pets

Do you think that smoking affects your pets? Of course it does! If it isn't good for you, it isn't good for your pets either.

Animals, I am referring specifically to cats and dogs suffer from secondhand smoke as well as their human friends.

Because cats groom themselves by licking, the incidents of mouth cancer in cats are found more often in a household where there is smoking than in non-smoking households.

Long nosed breeds in dogs on the other hand are more prone to nasal cancerous tumors.
When there is more than one smoker in the house the chances are even greater. In shorter nosed breeds there is a higher rate of lung cancer. These breeds don't seem to be affected by the nasal cancers like their longer nosed friends.

For some reason smoking doesn't seem to affect dogs or cats when it comes to more incidences of bladder cancer. So I guess if you are not concerned about bladder cancer it is okay to smoke. It does create more allergies and discomfort for them though.

The more closely we share living quarters with our pets the more they are affected by the same environmental hazards that we are. If you want to protect your pets it is important to find a designated smoking area away from them just the same, as we should for our children and other members of our family.

I suggest just building another room, at the back of the house. Then have a huge room purifier, and smoke eater. Better yet, have a separate house for you and your animals. You will of course have to have another income, and probably have to go back to school to start a new profession to afford another house so you can protect your animals from the second-hand smoke.

If this is not cost effective you can just quit smoking and get another job to afford all the extra food you will need to eat instead of smoking. You will not safe money on cigarettes and you will probably need a gastric by-pass because of all the weight you will gain from quitting smoking but then that is another article. Ha!