Pets are our companions at home, many are so fond of them that they treat them as if they were a "relative" more. If you have a pet and you are a smoker maybe this motivates you to turn off the cigar forever.
Dr. Daniel Bustos, representative of the Cardiovascular Franchise of Pfizer Central America and the Caribbean, comments that the pets of smokers, in this case dogs and cats, are those that develop more health problems caused by the smoke of their owners' cigarettes. .
"According to one study, it is curious and alarming to observe that the pets of those who smoke present or develop many more diseases than animals that have healthy owners," explains Dr. Bustos.
Diseases in dogs
A report by the Austrian Pneumology Society states that dogs have a high risk of developing a malignant nose , and more if they have a long snout. This is due to the structure of their nose since they have a smell 50 times more developed than the human being, so the toxins of cigarette smoke affect them much more.
The study concludes that a dog that lives with smokers has a 60% chance of developing lung cancer.
Diseases in cats
In the case of cats they develop tongue cancer . This is because they spend many hours cleaning the hair of the body with the tongue, toxic cigarettes adhere to the fur of the animal and when it cleanses, absorbs all the toxins of snuff .
Cigarette smoke also triples the risk of developing lymphoma, a common tumor in cats.
The habit of smoking is still deeply rooted in society, despite campaigns to prevent young people from smoking, opening clinics and showing raw photographs of the effects of smoking. An advance has been made, but it must be continued. However there are still smokers who do not realize the great damage they cause, we no longer talk about the damage itself, but to other people and now even to their pets.
If they have not had enough motivation to stop smoking, probably knowing that they can cause the death of their favorite pet will move them, now, to leave the cigar forever.