At 09:50 PM 10/28/02, Deborah Harrell wrote:
Here's something I hadn't heard.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/788102.asp
"...In the study, Moore and other researchers at Tufts
and the University of Massachusetts say living in a
household with smokers considerably increases a cat's
risk of acquiring feline lymphoma, which kills
three-quarters of its victims within a year...They
found that, adjusting for age and other factors, cats
exposed to second-hand smoke had more than double the
risk of acquiring the disease.
In households where they were exposed five
years or more, cats had more than triple the risk. In
a two-smoker household, the risk went up by a factor
of four."
How about the risk to non-smoking humans who live with cats who smoke?
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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