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

ScienceDaily | 7/30/2002 | Tufts University

[SheLion]

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

This new study is BOGUS. My cats go once a year for their shots and a check-up. They are housecats. Never run loose outside. They are in great shape.

This study is just more inaccurate, deceitful and dishonest information from the Nanny state. They want to "lean on the smokers" anyway they can.

The people that put forth this stuff just wants more control and power over a group of people who choose to smoke a legal commodity. I'm sick of it.

[SheLion]

The article is full of crap.

It's just more inaccurate, deceitful and dishonest information to lean on the smokers. Anything they can put into print to make us look bad. That's what they are all about.

I'm fed up with this stuff. They are just turning us into mean and hateful people who are tired of being picked on.

[jumpstartme]

Some cats are just born cool.

[SheLion]

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.

Mine, too.

[SheLion]

How much money got spent on these studies?

Exactly. And I don't even want to ask how many cats they "tested" to come up with something.

What did they do? Keep a cat in a tightly sealed box for a year with smoke? I don't even want to know.

[Just another Joe]

Exposure levels in cats continuously kept indoors may actually be higher than those of human household members
Cats may become exposed
"We believe that feline exposure patterns
but may reduce the risk
While no clear mechanism has been proposed to explain an association between active or passive smoking and the development of non-Hodgkins lymphoma in humans, the new study indicates several components of tobacco smoke may be carcinogenic to lymphoid tissue and may cause mutation in certain tissues.

You've got to hand it to the antis. They can't prove it on humans so lets prove it on pets.
Yeh, that's it, lets prove it on CATS. They're so much smaller than humans it won't take anything at all to prove SOMETHING on them.

In addition, Cats that contract lymphoma are usually about 10-years-old.

Isn't this near the end of a normal lifespan for a cat?

[jumpstartme]

To hell with em.

I won't give them that power in my life or let them win. They can win their court cases with their lib-left lawyer activist judges, but they won't win anything in my house.

Ask yer cat who he/she trusts, some nimrob research veghead or you? I think I already know the anwser.

[Bahbah]

They do want to lean on smokers any way they can, but that is not where this is meant to stop. Smokers are the test case. By the way, I had a great time reading the comments on this thread. LOL

[CaptRon]

HAH! I love this picture!

[muggs]

Isn't this near the end of a normal lifespan for a cat?

10 years is longer than most cats that live outside, not expoused to cigarette smoke, live.

[YOMO]

Mass., July 29, 2002 - Cats living in homes where people smoke cigarettes are more than twice as likely as other cats to acquire a deadly form of cancer...........

There you go, now we figured out the cats suffer from smoke. The solution is simple.
1. Have Congress pass new laws to declare it ileagle for cats to smoke if they are under 21.
2. Insist cats have seperate non-smoking areas within the homes.
3. Add a quarter a pack tax on Cigarettes for further studies on brand preference.
4. Create a cat smoking tsar who can report to the Congressional sub committe Chair Waxman on Anti smoking programs.
5. Ear mark $1.8B for Cat research.

And oh by the way, don't hold anyone accountable about their findings. They better do it quick though, earth is about to be destroyed by that large space rock speeding towards us. Grin.

[SheLion]

Isn't this near the end of a normal lifespan for a cat?

My cats live up to 15 years. So, anything past 10 years is a good life.

Funny how they use the words "May Cause!"

[SheLion]

Ask yer cat who he/she trusts, some nimrob research veghead or you? I think I already know the answer.

I think we better buy a gun. To protect our homes in the future.......AND our cats!

[SheLion]

Smokers are the test case.

And it's making us cranky, indeed!

And what is after fat?

[Mad Dawgg]

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

Uh Huh...

and the downside would be...???

[CougarGA7]

What they probably did was set up a room full of smokers with each one assigned a cat.

The task the smokers had was to smoke cigarettes and blow the smoke in the cat's face. (Remenecent of the "Hey, let's get the dog high!")

They then paid these people to do this for 10 YEARS.

[Just another Joe]

and the downside would be...???

From your FReeper handle, there ISN'T a downside for YOU. LOL

[jumpstartme]

Thanks. I just spilled coke all over my keyboard. LOL spewing all over keyboard. LOLSAOK. Thanks again.

[Bahbah]

Anything that is scented.

[Great Dane]

Again....... with so many fewer smokers, how can this feline cancer be on an increase.

The other day I heard second hand smoke being responsible for 5-6 more cancers, can't remember what they were, as I have stopped paying attention to it.