If it is so dangerous, (which I am not completely disputing) then surely the RSPCA would have been on our cases long before the NHS realised anything. I have never heard of any pets with smoking related illnesses. Surely they are as passive smoking as humans in the same environment?
2007-01-24 09:00:56 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
my dog picks up my cigarette butts and runs around with them hanging out the corner of his mouth..
he has done this from the time he was a pup
very funny to see
2007-01-24 09:07:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Smoking is relevant to long term damage. Dogs only live for an average of 10-15 years that's not long enough for them to die of lung cancer, and few dogs are autopsied to find out if they have it. There can be a genetic predisposition to lung cancer which is why you can get it even if you never smoked. But the vast majority of deaths are caused by smokers lung cancer and its quite real.
2007-01-24 17:11:14 · answer #2 · answered by justa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dogs and cats usually avoid second hand smoke and the percentage of pets that engage in first hand smoke is extremely small. Also, most do not live long enough to develop lung cancer.
2007-01-24 17:23:32 · answer #3 · answered by Paul K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We lost a Dog and a Cat due to Smoking related illness. Both had tumors caused by smoking. Yes they died of Cancer.
2007-01-24 17:22:26 · answer #4 · answered by kingcobra_47 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It probably has to do with differences in the respiratory systems of humans vs. dogs & cats. That' probably why they use mice in cancer research & not dogs & cats - mice get lung cancer.
Think about it, though! Now we smokers can have a positive reason for smoking - trying to keep mice & other rodents out of our house!
2007-01-24 17:13:49 · answer #5 · answered by Xeod 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have heard though that they subtract about 5 years off the expected life span of birds living in a house with smokers. It's not that there are no effects, or even that there are minimal effects, it's that no body has had the time or energy to really protest something like that- thank goodness.
2007-01-24 17:27:28 · answer #6 · answered by locusfire 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of the illnesses that humans get cannot be gotten by animals and vice versa. For instance, animals cannot get the flu or herpes. Humans cannot get Feline AIDS. It is because humans and animals are made differently.
2007-01-24 17:09:32 · answer #7 · answered by Wookie on Water 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you dog dies at age 15 do you think natural cause or do pay for a puppy autopsy, more animales may die due to smoker than u realize because we dont questions pets deaths the way we do humans
2007-01-24 17:09:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they don't have the same string of cells that we do. That's why you can't catch a cold from your cat or vice versa. They have some of the same disesases we do (HIV) but only a few.
2007-01-24 17:16:29 · answer #9 · answered by Summer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i know few people who kin have died of lung cancer and never smoke or drank very religious people so cancer is not nessary cuased cigarettes only
2007-01-24 17:05:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋