Can second hand smoke from cigarettes hurt my cat?

Question

Hi, my cat Bud and i are together alot and when we visit with some of my friends who smoke cigarettes i have been wondering if the smoke could harm Bud's lung's? I don't smoke myself and i won't leave Bud in the car (which I think is cruel) since he enjoys playing with my friends.

Answer 1

YES YES and YESSSS... it can be as harming as it is to smoke around a child... make your home a non smoking one if you would like to increase the life of your beloved pet.

Answer 2

I am a smoker trying desperately to quit - and yes, I am aware that cigg smoke can harm my cat. My solution: I don't smoke around cats, dogs, children or non-smokers; and I am quitting! There are several ways to tackle your problem:
(1) Leave Bud home where he is safe
(2) Take Bud with you but ask your freinds if they could smoke outside away from you and Bud because you're both allergic to the smoke - most smokers won't mind stepping outside to smoke
(3) Position yourself and Bud right beside an open window when someone begins to smoke indoors (but this is only half-half)
(4)Invite your freinds that Bud likes to play with and make it a rule that they can smoke only outside

Answer 3

Smoking cigarettes will hurt everything in your family and house. Your kids (if you have any) will get yellow teeth from the secondhand smoke, your walls will become a gross color, your clothes will always smell bad, your breath will stick all the time. And yes, secondhand smoke will hurt the unborn kittens, just like it can hurt an unborn human baby.

Answer 4

Second hand smoke is the worst thing that a cat can be expossed to, you bet it is dangerous. You have to think of a cat's lungs the same way you think about a baby's lungs. I would not expose your cat to it anymore.

Answer 5

A Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine study found that cats living in a home with a smoker are more likely to develop squamous cell carcinoma, an oral cancer, than cats who are not exposed to secondhand smoke.

Why mouth cancer? Cats in smoking households lick up the thousands of chemicals that settle on their fur when they live with smokers. Daily grooming over a long period of time exposes a cat’s sensitive mouth skin to these cancer-causing chemicals, known as carcinogens.
The risk for cancer skyrocketed when a cat lived with more than one smoker or had been exposed to secondhand smoke for more than five years.


The same study also found that cats who live with a smoker are more than twice as likely to develop feline lymphoma, or cancer of the lymph nodes. Smokers inadvertently deposit thousands of smoke particles on their cats’ fur, which the cats inhale when they groom themselves. These concentrated particles enter cats’ nasal passages and bloodstream, causing cancer in the sinuses and throughout the body, including the chest and the intestines.

Cats who breathe in secondhand smoke can also develop respiratory problems, lung inflammation, and asthma.

Answer 6

Yes definitely!! I made my husband go outside to keep it away from ours and from me. I think it would be more harmful on a kitty or dog than a human too because cat's lungs are smaller than ours and more vulnerable.

Answer 7

Its not good, but the smoke from the traffic and factories is even worse, just leave a cat at home.

Answer 8

Yes, I'm sure it harms their bodies the same way it does ours. Also, a lot of them just really dislike smoke, they squint and cringe when someone smokes near them.

Answer 9

you worry a lot about your cat dont you,but the answer is no as cats dont live long enough for passive smoking to hurt them,Bud will be long gone by then

Answer 10

It does harm cats just as people. Not only is the cat breathing it in just like people, it also gets on his fur. So when a cat cleans itself and licks its fur, it gets all the tar and nicotene into its system.