[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.

[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?

[drjimmy]

Pussies!!!

[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?

[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

[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?

[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.

[Mad Dawgg]

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

Uh Huh...

and the downside would be...???

[VRWC_minion]

My favorite is

So many cats, so few recipes.

[mississippi red-neck]

A bunch of egg-headed scientific type with nothing better to do than study the effects of second hand smoke on cats. Sounds like these cats are sharpening their claws for some more government reasearch handouts. As sheriff Buford T. Justice would say. "What the hell is the world coming to" ?

[Khepera]

I smoke... I wish my damn cat would get cancer and die!

[Redcloak]

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

And the problem with that would be...?