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From: "- Z -"
Date: 2002-08-06 22:29:01 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] second hand smoke and malignancies
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <LAW2-F10558tCU4HHsB00007f2a@hotmail.com>

>From: Sukie Crandall <sukiecrandall@telocity.com>
>
>We have all read of other reports of animal companions of multiple
>types having health problems related to second hand smoke, but here's
>a report which leads me to think that it would make sense to further
>track this for ferrets: in the 8/12/2002 issue of U.S. News and
>World Report on page 13 there is a short article about research at
>Tufts (Sorry, missed writing down the primary researcher's name when
>I got called for my allergy shot.) stating that in cats they have
>found more than twice the rate of lymphoma if the cats lived in
>places where they were exposed to second-hand smoke.

The was also reported in the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/06/health/06HAZA.html

I'd been meaning to forward that here for a while. The primary researcher
is Antony S. Moore.

>Seems like something that vets could track though some smokers may be
>defensive about it...

that's partly why I hadn't previously forwarded the article :-/

Regina

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