Ok, if its not enough that cigarette smoking can be killing you and your children, now there is proof that it can be killing your pets!

According to the California Environmental Protection Agency second hand smoke exposure causes thousands of lung cancer and heart disease deaths among nonsmokers every year.  126 million Americans who don’t smoke are exposed in their homes, vehicles, workplaces, and other public areas.

This is one of the biggest issues we had to deal with in moving to Michigan (a state that does not yet ban smoking in restaraunts) and it is still a challenge, though we fully support patronizing establishments who take such responsibility on for themselves.

Carolynn MacAllister of Oklahoma State University states, “there have been a number of scientific papers recently that have reported the significant health threat secondhand smoke posts to pets.  Second hand smoke has been associated with oral cancer and lymphoma in cats, lung and nasal cancer in dogs, as well as lung cancer in birds.”

It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to believe this to be fact, though I suppose ignorance can cloud anyones perception.”

In Health,

R-n-A