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BIRDS AND THE BEES
Can pets suffer from passive smoking?
Anne Bromley, London
- I'd say so. When I had a job which involved home visits, I used to attend a couple who were both extremely heavy smokers. They had a budgie and I conversationally asked if it could talk. "No", came the answer, "but it coughs a lot".
Carla, Crewe, UK
- I had a cat who died from lung cancer, but no one in the house smokes. But presumably passive smoking would increase their risk.
Anna, Northfield USA
- I work in a school in Salford
UK, an area with well documented health problems. The kids tell me it's normal to wake to hear birds coughing in the morning.
c.lloyd, Manchester UK
- One of my cats had a very bad cough for all the time I owned him - about three years. A few weeks after I stopped smoking, he stopped coughing. I doubt it was a coincidence.
bernardlion, Rome Italy
- Of course they can. They have lungs. In animal reasearch centres rats and other animals are given cigarettes to test them, an consequencially they die. Of course, these rats aren't pets, but they're still animals. The nicotine and other harmful substances in cigarettes can effect any animal.
Barry, Wye Wales
- my goldfish appears to be fine.
Jon, Havant
- Oh yes. They're more like humans than people give them credit for, or would like to think. I work very closely with animals, cats especially, and everything from the personality to the diet of the cat is effected by smoking. A cat was brought to me by a smoker as a picky eater, but in my care would eat anything and everything in sight.
James, Phoenix, AZ USA
- Of course they can inhale the fumes, I have seen my brothers cat stoned.
John, London, UK
- Of course. If they can get drunk....
Andrea, Colima México
- When my husband and I stopped smoking our cat stopped snoring. So, yes.
Amy, Hove, UK
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