Detroit, February 10: A latest survey by Sharon M. Milberger, Sc. D., Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, and his team highlights the willingness of smokers to relinquish their habit for the safety of their pets.
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Detroit, February 10: A latest survey by Sharon M. Milberger, Sc. D., Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, and his team highlights the willingness of smokers to relinquish their habit for the safety of their pets.
The results of this survey that was conducted online show that 28.4 percent of smokers would be encouraged to give up the habit on realizing that second-hand smoke was harmful for their pets’ health. Also, 8.7 percent would ask their partners to quit smoking on learning about the potential ill effects that second-hand smoke can cause in pets.
According to researchers, 3,300 people, mostly white females from Michigan, participated in the survey. 66 percent of these were dog owners, 53 percent had cats, and 10 percent of them possessed birds.
As far as non-smoking pet owners living with smokers are concerned, 16 percent of them said that they would request their partners to relinquish smoking so as to protect their dog, cat or bird from the potential hazards it poses. Another 24 percent of them said they would ask their partners to go outside and smoke as and when necessary.
The survey highlights that around 40 percent smokers and 24 percent non-smokers who live with smokers would like to broaden their knowledge about the impact of smoking, second-hand smoke and how to give up the habit.
The researchers feel that public health campaigns having motivating people to quit smoking as their sole objective may get an impetus if smokers are made to realize that inhaling second-hand smoke is harmful for both pets as well as human beings.
Researchers link exposure to tobacco smoke to certain cancers in dogs and cats. It also results in allergies in dogs and skin and respiratory problems in birds.
The researchers hinted, “This new source of motivation could be particularly strong for smokers who, aside from their companion animals, live alone.”
The findings of the survey have been published in the BMJ specialty publication, Tobacco Control.
Anti-Smokers LIE
The real issue is ANTI-SMOKER SCIENTIFIC FRAUD! More than 50 studies show that human papillomaviruses cause over ten times more lung cancers than they pretend are caused by secondhand smoke. Anti-smoker studies are all based on nothing but lifestyle questionnaires, so they've been cynically DESIGNED to falsely blame passive smoking for all those extra lung cancers that are really caused by HPV.
http://www.smokershistory.com/hpvlungc.htm
And they commit the same fraud with animals!
http://www.smokershistory.com/hpvstrai.htm#Animals
They ignore other evidence that proves they're lying, such as the death rates from asthma doubling since their movement began.
http://www.smokershistory.com/newviews.htm
And it's a lie that passive smoking causes heart disease. AMI deaths in Pueblo actually ROSE the year after the smoking ban.
http://www.smokershistory.com/etsheart.html
The government has no right to restrict peoples' liberty without a compelling justification. The anti-smokers have no such justification, so THEY COMMITTED SCIENTIFIC FRAUD TO DECEIVE THE PUBLIC.