New Study Shows Passive Cigarette Smoke At Least Doubles Risk Of Cancer In Cats

ScienceDaily | 7/30/2002 | Tufts University

[SheLion]

I've had cats all my life, and have smoked all my adult life. My cats all live to be 15 years-old. I'm not even going to go there.

[reformedliberal]

Me, too.

[HumanaeVitae]

Hey, if this is true, you might as well let your cats light up. At least they'll get the "buzz"...

[per loin]

New Study Shows Smokers Twice As Likely As Non-Smokers To Spend Thousands Of Dollars On Sick Cats.

[Khurkris]

New study shows there is an abundance of cats for research.

[robertpaulsen]

I can't tell from the article; Are they for or against smoking around cats?

[jumpstartme]

The article is full of crap.

It isn't caused by smoke, rather by feline leukemia. I know, I lost one to lymphoma.

BTW, the average age isn't ten either, according to my vet it is around 6.

"It is generally believed to be related to exposure to feline leukemia virus or, in some patients, feline immunodeficiency virus."

[dtel]

Let us see, if I had a 1 in 10 million chance of contacting a disease, etc., doubling my risk would put me at 1 in 5 million.
More junk science.

[gubamyster]

I can't tell from the article; Are they for or against smoking around cats?

I think they are for smoking cats.

[muggs]

Hey, if this is true, you might as well let your cats light up. At least they'll get the "buzz"...

No way, I spend enough feeding these 2 picky cats of mine, I'm not going to get them started on cigarettes. I'm sure they would only smoke the expensive brands.

[jumpstartme]

Junk science bump.

Ours got it for entirely unique reasons. Genetics more than anything else. That's another problem with the article. Different full bred cats (and dogs) have a far greater chance than your average mixed breed. It really depends on the genetics. And, some breeders are very careful about it and some aren't. That's the reason the odds make no sense either...

As a uneducated consumer, you really can't tell by looking at the animal.

[drjimmy]

Pussies!!!

[dtel]

As odd as it may seem, mixed breed animals tend to be more hardy and disease resistant.
Hybrid vigor, they call it in the cow business.
Tends to bring out the best in both breeds.

[WaterDragon]

Well, here's one more benefit to not being a cat.

[CougarGA7]

Junk Science:

"We dropped a 10lb bag of sugar on rats at our test facility. We have come to the conclusion that excess glucose causes internal hemoraging, shortness of breath, unexplained bone fractures, and eventually, death."

How much money got spent on these studies?

[CaptRon]

I just can't see this as reason for me to quit.

BTW, anyone have that picture of the cat with the beer, the remote and the pack of Marlboro's?

[HumanaeVitae]

Yeah. And knowing cats, they'd probably grow goatees, put on berets and start going on about the pointlessness of life.

[jumpstartme]

[Isle of sanity in CA]

Everybody laugh while you can....

I'm going to go out on a limb and make a prediction - Smoking will be outlawed in homes where pets are present.

Why do you think they are doing these 'studies'?

Here in CA, smoking is illegal in restaurants, bars, etc., and I think there are plans (if it hasn't already been done already) to outlaw smoking in homes that employ people (i.e. maids)

It's scary to live in such a 'progressive' state :-O